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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 who was the founder and first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.
Based here, he adopted a pet cat, who both he and his wife doted on; he was known to carry the cat into Sovnarkom meetings. [125] Although Lenin was impressed by the architecture of the Kremlin, [126] he had always disliked Moscow, a traditional Russian city which differed from the Europeanised style of Petrograd. [127]
To educate the working class on Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form a political party, or vanguard, of dedicated revolutionaries in order to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The pamphlet, in part, precipitated the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party between Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. [4]
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film, directed by Wolfgang Becker.The cast includes Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, and Maria Simon.The story follows a family in East Germany (GDR); the mother (Sass) is dedicated to the socialist cause and falls into a coma in October 1989, shortly before the Peaceful Revolution in November.
Lenin said that the appearance of new socialist states was necessary for strengthening Russia's economy in establishing Russian socialism. Lenin's socio-economic perspective was supported by the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Italian insurrection and general strikes of 1920, and worker wage-riots in the UK, France, and the US.
Lenin's Mausoleum has undergone several changes in appearance since the collapse of the Soviet Union. One of the first noticeable was the placement of gates at the staircases leading to the tribune. After the removal of the guard, this was necessary to prevent unauthorised usage of the tribune.
"In China, a Headless Mao Is a Game of Cat and Mouse", in The New York Times, October 5, 2009; Gao brothers, Benamou Gallery, Paris, 2007. Un autre monde, les frères Gao, Les rencontres d’Arles, 2007; GOLD, "Artist brothers test Chinese boundaries", in Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2005.
French historian Pierre Broue also cited the Moscow archives which documented written correspondence between Stalin and the secretary of the Abkhazian party, Nestor Lakoba, as evidence of Stalin's efforts to keep Trotsky in Sukhumi during Lenin's funeral. [7] Trotsky would also deliver a tribute to Lenin with his 1925 short book, "Lenin". [8] [9]