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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.
Lenin saw this as an expression of Great Russian ethnic chauvinism on behalf of Stalin and his supporters, instead calling for these nation-states to join Russia as semi-independent parts of a greater union, which he suggested by called the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia. [319]
Against the protestations of Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, Lenin's body was embalmed to preserve it for long-term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. [13] The commander of the Moscow Garrison issued an order to place the guard of honour at the mausoleum, whereby it was colloquially referred to as the "Number One Sentry". [14]
27 January – Lenin is buried in the Lenin's Mausoleum at the Red Square; 29 January – a three-day plenary session of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted decision on "Lenin's call to the party" (Lenin Enrolment) 31 January – The 1924 Soviet Constitution is ratified by the Congress of Soviets
The leaders of the Petrograd Soviet conspired to overthrow the Russian Provisional Government; the uprising started on 7 November 1917, when Red Guards units captured the Winter Palace. On the next day, 8 November 1917, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets recognized the success of the uprising, and formally established the new government ...
News 24 is the first Albanian 24-hour news television channel founded in 2002 in Tirana, Albania, by Italian journalist and former shareholder of Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper, Radio Rash, and Balkanweb portal, Carlo Bollino. [1] The channel's format resembles its Italian equivalent Rai News24. News is updated every minute.
Lenin's position was that after the revolution all nationalities would be free to choose, either to become part of Soviet Russia or become independent. [31] Left-wing Bolsheviks, most notably Georgy Pyatakov , derided nationalism as a false consciousness that was much less important than class conflict , and would disappear with the victory of ...
Lenin returned to Russia briefly during the Revolution of 1905, but fled again when the Tsarist authorities defeated the revolutionary forces and cracked down on dissent. Living in Paris and then Kraków , he focused on internal conflict within the Marxist movement, opposing the ideas of the Mensheviks and Alexander Bogdanov ; he penned ...