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2 days ago · Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, 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.
5 days ago · Learning from Lenin in an era of crises and war. 100 years on from his death, the great revolutionary leader’s thinking is extra relevant to today’s time of economic and climate crises, combined with a relentless drive to war, says LOGAN WILLIAMS. Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and his sister. MORE and more activists within our labour ...
3 days ago · Vladimir Lenin himself, in a lecture on the 1905 revolution delivered in Zurich, acknowledged the considerable participation of Jews, stating, "the Jews provided a particularly high percentage (compared with the total Jewish population) of leaders of the revolutionary movement". 1 This strong involvement was motivated by a profound desire for ...
12 hours ago · Lenin’s Opposition. The Menshevik Provisional Government faced strong opposition from the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin and his followers strongly opposed the Mensheviks. They believed the Mensheviks weren’t revolutionary enough. They criticized the Provisional Government for not ending the war.
12 hours ago · The discussion in the piece contains two errors. First, Vladimir Lenin did not oversee Soviet industrialisation and collectivisation. Following the brutal policy of War Communism of the Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik leadership retreated from a command economy to the partially marketised New ...
3 days ago · On 30 December 1922, the Russian SFSR joined former territories of the Russian Empire to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), of which Lenin was elected leader. On 9 March 1923, Lenin suffered a stroke, which incapacitated him and effectively ended his role in government.
1 day ago · In order to achieve this degree of control over messaging, Vladimir Lenin eliminated media competition within the first year of seizing power (Kenez, 1985). In contrast, bureaucratic authoritarian regimes in South America wanted to depoliticize citizens and encourage mass complacency (O’Donnell, 1978). Bureaucratic authoritarian regimes ...
