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How the Working People Can Be Saved from the Oppression of the Landowners and Capitalists for Ever: 05-Apr-1920: English: Record ⓘ 13: Never been assigned: About Soviet power or About Polish Front - a conventional name; allegedly the matrix was damaged during copying: 05-Apr-1920: The speech has never been published: 14: А-0288: 5th session ...
Lenin, who was present in the hall, remained silent and did not interrupt the speaker. [6] The next day, June 4, Lenin was given the floor for a 15-minute speech, in which the word "is!" (without the words "such a party"), as well as a reference to the speech of Irakli Tsereteli on the previous day of the Congress. [ 7 ]
Trust us, and we will give you our program. Our conference on April 29 gave this program. Unfortunately, it is not considered and is not guided by it. Apparently, it is required to find out her popularly". In his speech, Lenin proposed "arrest the 50-100 largest millionaires", introduce workers' control in the industry and make peace. [3]
At the opening of the Congress, Lenin gave a speech saying that the "Soviet government will propose an immediate democratic peace to all the nations and an immediate armistice on all fronts" and declared "Long live the revolution!," uttering what are sometimes called the "Land Decree" and "Decree on Peace." [14] [15] [16]
Lenin's direct and simple definition of the State is that "the State is a special organisation of force: it is an organisation of violence for the suppression of some Social class." [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Hence his denigration even of parliamentary democracy , which was influenced by what Lenin saw as the recent increase of bureaucratic and military ...
Manifestation of war veterans and invalids in Petrograd on 17 April 1917 against Lenin's arrival. The April Theses (Russian: апрельские тезисы, transliteration: aprel'skie tezisy) were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his April 1917 return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.
Similarly, Volkogonov believed that "by the very force of his personality, [Lenin] had an influence over people". [463] Conversely, Lenin's friend Maxim Gorky commented that in his physical appearance as a "baldheaded, stocky, sturdy person", the communist revolutionary was "too ordinary" and did not give "the impression of being a leader". [464]
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, [b] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [c] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [4] [5] Bolshevik coup, [5] or Bolshevik revolution, [6] [7] was a revolution in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin's ...