See what sparked the fight. In this Jan. 2009 file photo, lookalikes of two Vladimir Lenins, left, and a Josef Stalin, right, speak near Red square in Moscow. Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images MOSCOW -- ...

MOSCOW—In the shadow of the Kremlin, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin clashed over how to divvy up the spoils of their little enterprise. Lenin felt he wasn’t getting a fair share, while Stalin’s ...

WE LIVE in a time of planning -- even of planned history. History planned means history annulled. Moscow now dictates that the revolution of October 1917 had quite different authors and heroes from ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

Good short account of how the foundations of Stalinist terror were laid by the policies of Lenin and Trotsky in the early days of the Russian Revolution. Submitted by ...

We all think we know Stalin. He was the brutal and vengeful dictator of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until 1953, when, mercifully, he died before he could do any more damage. He was the ...