The Bolsheviks sought to erase all street names associated with the tsarist regime and started to rename places in order to commemorate leading communist officials and heroes. That’s how many cities got streets named not only after Lenin, but also after various foreigners. Here are some of them.
In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds, a retelling of John Reed's classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics.