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The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...
As Russia bombs Ukraine, artists reviving Soviet symbols stay quiet. Why does the West’s art world still give them space?
The Bolsheviks didn’t just take Russia they dismantled an empire and reshaped history in a matter of months. This video unpacks how Lenin, Trotsky, and the Red Guards seized power through revolution, ...
Propaganda and spiritual oppression are becoming a routine part of everyday life in Putin's Russia, especially in schools and universities.
Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of pilgrimage ...
The Lenin statue in Osh. (Photo: Adam Harangozó/Wikimedia Commons) For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above ...
Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after ...
Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.
TikTok users are building eye-catching lists of their dislikes and are labeling them as propaganda that they’re “not falling for.” ...
If someone picks up a newspaper in China, there's a good chance it contains some government propaganda masquerading as news, according to a new study co-led by a University of Oregon expert.