Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that is why in today's Russian ideological labyrinth, in which chauvinism is ...

By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing ...

The tomb is a popular attraction drawing both domestic and foreign visitors that always form a long line waiting to enter the mausoleum and see embalmed body of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. According ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. The truth is, it's been years since I visited the mausoleum. But ...

The only “good” that Lenin believed in was whatever benefited the Bolshevik Party and its Revolution. If it helped the party, it was good; if it didn’t, it was bad, and that certainly meant lying as ...

The northwestern Russian city of Vologda has erected a 9-meter-tall statue of Tsar Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible ...