Vladimir Lenin

Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia

Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war

Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

10, Mar, 2025 @5:00 AM

Rail route of the month: Slavic magic on a gentle trip to Zakopane, Poland

Our slow travel expert discovers the legacy of popes and revolutionaries on a trip south from Kraków to the resort town in the Tatra Mountains

Nicky Gardner

21, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

‘Angel or antichrist’: Russia grapples with Lenin’s legacy 100 years after death

Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

Andrew Roth

21, Jan, 2024 @10:00 AM

A Nasty Little War review – the west’s chaotic campaign to undo the Russian Revolution

Journalist Anna Reid’s thrilling history throws much-needed light on the dark, bloody and sometimes absurd attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks by the US, Britain and others

Luke Harding

07, Nov, 2023 @9:00 AM

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

Orlando Figes

27, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM

‘It’s impossible to take your eyes off this infinitely dear face’: the startling film about Stalin’s funeral

Crafted from footage locked for years in an archive, Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral focuses on the motivations of the mourners who lived under the brutal regime

Alex von Tunzelmann

14, May, 2021 @7:00 AM

Brexiters buy KGB artefacts for ‘museum of communist terror’

Portrait of Lenin and spy tools among items snapped up at auction by group planning UK exhibition

Ben Quinn

28, Feb, 2021 @12:16 PM

Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?

His antisemitism made him a far-right icon. So what attracted reds and radicals from Lenin to George Bernard-Shaw to the tumultuous sounds of Hitler’s favourite composer?

Alex Ross

17, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

How should Europe respond now its American ally has turned hostile?

As trusted friends join the ranks of predators, it could be time to take a tougher line – soft power is no longer enough

Simon Tisdall

30, Aug, 2020 @7:30 AM

Lenin's tomb reopens as Russia rushes to return from lockdown

Queues outside Red Square mausoleum are latest sign life in Moscow is getting back to normal

Andrew Roth in Moscow

01, Jul, 2020 @3:31 PM

Lessons from Lenin to get through this crisis | Brief letters

Letters

09, Apr, 2020 @6:01 PM

First Lenin statue in western Germany to be erected after heated battle

Victory for Gelsenkirchen’s leftist party MLPD after city authorities tried to halt installation

Kate Connolly in Berlin

06, Mar, 2020 @12:27 PM

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