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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.
Given a few days in Saint Petersburg in February 1897 to put his affairs in order, he met with fellow revolutionaries; the Social-Democrats had been renamed the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, and with many of its leading intelligentsia imprisoned, workers had taken over many senior positions, a move that caused ...
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (Russian: Три источника и три составных части марксизма) is an article written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and published in 1913. The article was dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of Karl Marx’s death.
Vladimir Lenin: Member parties: Bolsheviks Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917–1918) Status in legislature: Majority (1917–1921) Sole legal party (from 1921) Opposition cabinet: Komuch (1918) Ufa Directory (1918) Omsk Government (1918–1920) Priamurye Government (1920–1923) Opposition parties: Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917–1921 ...
Lenin's socio-political analysis of empire as the ultimate stage of capitalism derived from Imperialism: A Study (1902) by John A. Hobson, an English economist, and Finance Capital (Das Finanzcapital, 1910) by Rudolf Hilferding, an Austrian Marxist, whose syntheses Lenin applied to the geopolitical circumstances of the First World War, caused ...
[3]: 30 Lenin argues that understanding politics requires understanding all of society, not just workers and their economic struggles with their employers. Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without ; that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and ...
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 ...
The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (LSEWC) [a] was a Marxist group in the Russian Empire. It was founded in St. Petersburg by Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, Anatoly Vaneyev, Alexander Malchenko, P. Zaporozhets and V. Starkov in the autumn of 1895. [1]