Twentieth-century totalitarianism depended on man-gods. Lenin was worshipped as not only spiritually immortal, as Mayakovsky suggested in his poem, but as materially immortal, zombified and on display ...

I have watched with horror the totalitarian pattern of the Jan. 6 committee. As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to ...

The tragedy that is Venezuela, a case study in the suffering and lack of freedom woven into the very fabric of Marxist socialism doesn’t receive the attention it deserves at a time when last week’s ...

What Are You Watching? is a weekly space for The A.V Club’s staff and readers to share their thoughts, observations, and opinions on film and TV. “Why is Stalin always pictured in boots, while Lenin ...

One bit of unfinished business remaining from the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union was what to do with Vladimir Lenin, the architect of that unlamented 74-year excursion into totalitarianism.

Sidney Hook, philosophy professor at New York University, has published in the current Partisan Review an article on “The Future of Socialism.” He has some interesting points to make on the ...

Two excellent books published this year provide both a beginning and an end to the story of modern Russia. Victor Sebestyen’s “Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror” explains how ...

“It was high time to put communism where it belongs—in a museum,” Bulgarian culture minister Vezhdi Rashidov told a crowd yesterday at the opening of the museum’s new Museum of Socialist Art, which ...

The 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, which is marked on Nov. 7, is being commemorated quietly in Moscow. Today, the Russians are even more split about the legacy of this violent historic ...