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…is that it came to the government’s attention that the Chevers papers were about to be released. The proof of the survival of Royal Family would be embarrassing to Lenin and Trotsky. It would show that the Russian government has constantly been lying about what…

…. The man who would be known as Joseph Stalin was born on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a province of the Russian Empire located in the Caucus Mountains. His birth name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, and he was the third son of Vissarion…

…Joseph Stalin, leader of Russia (1928-1953), created a Five-Year Plan that included methods and goals which were detrimental to Russian agriculture in 1928. Stalin wanted to transform individual farms into large collective farms because he saw…

…of this unbridled imperialism. National interests serve only as an instrument of deception, in order to place the working masses at the service of their mortal enemy, imperialism.” 12 In The Russian Revolution, which she wrote in prison in 1918 amidst…

…. Over 90% of the Russian population lived on small farms. Farming was primitive and this meant Russia had no money to spend. Russian industry was concentrated in only a few cities including Leningrad and Moscow. Output was well below 1913 levels…

…and capitalism. ('America is the Great Satan.') The demise of Marxism-Leninism in Europe does not extend to the Middle East. Russian and Chinese weapons continue to be sold for Arab oil money. During centuries of warfare the western countries have become democracies…

…and desirable goods to buy with the money they earn. This was a problem that Lenin faced with his reform of the Russian economy when stated that the common peasant was the key to positive change. Yet it was impossible to produce more and better goods without worker…

…February battle against the Czar, Eisenstein introduces the viewer to a secret camp at which Lenin is already devising another revolution. The sequence is composed of seven shots: 1. A still shot of a foggy lake and some small trees; 2. The inter-title…

…the view of the Soviet Union in 1941, things were certainly not going well. With the Nazi German invasion of its borders with operation Barbarossa and with the Russian purges in the armed forces, the USSR was facing complete destruction by a nation that only…

…died on Sept. 2, 1969, at the age of 79, some six years before his battalions surged into Saigon. Aspiring to bask in the reflected glory of his posthumous triumph, his heirs put his embalmed body on display in a hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's…