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During the embalming process, Lenin's brain had been removed; in 1925, an institute was established to dissect it, revealing that Lenin had had severe sclerosis. [15] According to Stalin's secretary, Boris Bazhanov, Stalin was jubilant over Lenin's death while “publicly putting on the mask of grief”.
In July 1916, Lenin's mother died, but he was unable to attend her funeral. [119] Her death deeply affected him, and he became depressed, fearing that he too would die before seeing the proletarian revolution. [120]
Vladimir Lenin was voted the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Sovnarkom) on 30 December 1922 by the Congress of Soviets. [11] At the age of 53, his health declined from the effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes which culminated with his death in 1924. [12]
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A ...
Lenin died at his Gorki home on 21 January 1924, having fallen into a coma earlier in the day. [327] His official cause of death was recorded as an "incurable disease of the blood vessels". [ 328 ]
In 1922, Lenin's health was rapidly deteriorating alongside his relationship with Stalin. [6] Lenin and Trotsky had formed a bloc alliance to counter bureaucratisation of the party and the growing influence of Stalin. [7] [8] Lenin wrote a pamphlet, "Lenin's Testament", urging the party to remove Stalin as General Secretary fearing his ...
Lenin's speech at the rally ended with the words: "We will die or win!". When Lenin left the plant and was getting into the car, a woman, approached him with a complaint that bread was being confiscated at the railway stations. When Lenin turned towards her, she fired three shots with a Browning pistol (FN M1900).
In one of the few political developments that affected Trotsky in 1925, the circumstances of the controversy over Lenin's Testament were described by American Marxist Max Eastman in his book Since Lenin Died (1925). Trotsky denied these statements made by Eastman in an article he wrote. [169] In the meantime, the troika finally broke up.