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Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov[ b] (22 April [ O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, [ c] was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement[ a] is a political pamphlet written by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) in 1901 and published in 1902, a development of a "skeleton plan" laid out in an article first published in early 1901. [ 1][ 2] Its title is taken from the 1863 novel of the same name by the ...
Nikita Khrushchev. " Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen. Leon Trotsky. " The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection." Mahatma Gandhi. " Today's Communism can survive only if ...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Crisis in Our Party ( Russian: Шаг вперёд, два шага назад (Кризис в нашей партии), romanized : Shag vperyod, dva shaga nazad (Krizis v nashey partii)) is a work written by Vladimir Lenin and published on May 6/19, 1904. In it Lenin defends his role in the 2nd Congress ...
Trust, but verify (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, romanized: doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj]) is a Russian proverb, which rhymes in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of ...
This is a list of speeches of Vladimir Lenin, the founder and leader of both Soviet Russia (1917–1924) and Soviet Union (1922–1924). Lenin, speaking for the public in 1919. Vladimir Lenin speech in Moscow on May 5, 1920. Lenin Giving a Speech to a Crowd in 1917.
It is God's way. His will be done." [ 1 ][ note 1 ] — William McKinley, president of the United States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September. "My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [ 3 ] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan.
Synopsis. The State and Revolution is considered to be Lenin's most important work on the state and has been called by Lucio Colletti "Lenin's greatest contribution to political theory". [ 2] According to the Marxologist David McLellan, "the book had its origin in Lenin's argument with Bukharin in the summer of 1916 over the existence of the ...