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Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" Record ⓘ 17: А-0291: 5th session / Tsentropechat: Concessions and the development of capitalism: 25-Apr-1921: Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" Record ⓘ 18: А-0292: 5th session / Tsentropechat: Non-party men and Soviet Power: 25-Apr-1921: Russian ...
The April Theses were first published in a speech in two meetings on 17 April 1917 (4 April according to the old Russian Calendar). [1] Some believe he based this on Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution. [2] They were subsequently published in the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda. In the Theses, Lenin [3]
The description of the first flag was given in the 1924 Soviet Constitution, accepted in the second session of the executive committee (CIK) of the USSR on 6 July 1923. The text of Article 71 states: "The state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consists of a red or scarlet field with the state's coat of arms." It was ordered with ...
At the time, Lenin's elder brother Alexander, whom he affectionately knew as Sasha, was studying at Saint Petersburg University. Involved in political agitation against the absolute monarchy of the reactionary Tsar Alexander III, Alexander studied the writings of banned leftists and organised anti-government protests. He joined a revolutionary ...
1970 French edition of Lenin's 1917 book The State and Revolution. In Bolshevik Russia, government by direct democracy was realised and effected by the soviets (elected councils of workers), which Lenin said was the "democratic dictatorship of the proletariat" postulated in orthodox Marxism. [15]
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]
The plan had the significance of creating a large demand for monumental sculpture on a state level, and thus it stands at the origins of the Soviet school of sculpture. The "plan" consisted of two main projects: (1) – decorating buildings and other surfaces "traditionally used for banners and posters" with revolutionary slogans and memorial ...
The State and Revolution is considered to be Lenin's most important work on the state and has been called by Lucio Colletti "Lenin's greatest contribution to political theory". [2] According to the Marxologist David McLellan , "the book had its origin in Lenin's argument with Bukharin in the summer of 1916 over the existence of the state after ...