The View From Lenin Street
One hundred years after Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution that brought the communists to power in Russia, his name remains inscribed on streets and squares across the former Soviet Union. But what do people know about him today? RFE/RL asked people on Lenin Streets in several countries the simple question: Who was Vladimir Lenin?
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