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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 / Tsentropechat: The Tax In Kind: 25-Apr-1921: Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" The recording has not been found, only the ...
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]
Lenin's belief as to what a proletarian state should look like nevertheless deviated from that adopted by the Marxist mainstream; European Marxists like Kautsky envisioned a democratically elected parliamentary government in which the proletariat had a majority, whereas Lenin called for a strong, centralised state apparatus that excluded any ...
Lenin gave at least two speeches at the conference, and these were subsequently praised by Stalin in his memoirs. [1] The atmosphere at the conference was one of great revolutionary enthusiasm, which was lauded by Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. According to her, members of the Tampere Red Guards even taught the Russians how to shoot rifles. [8]
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 ...
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After the end of Romanov rule in February 1917, Russia's new Provisional Government, composed of State Duma members and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, governed Russia as halves of the Dual Power dynamic. Soviet participation in the Provisional Government swayed governmental policies, and cultivated the political ...
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]