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Vladimir Lenin was voted the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Sovnarkom) on 30 December 1922 by the Congress of Soviets. [11] At the age of 53, his health declined from the effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes which culminated with his death in 1924. [12]
Lenin suffered three debilitating strokes in 1922 and 1923 before his death in 1924, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government. Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.
Lenin sent Trotsky to speak on his behalf at a Central Committee plenum in December, where the plans for the USSR were sanctioned; these plans were then ratified on 30 December by the Congress of Soviets, resulting in the formation of the Soviet Union. [321] In March, Lenin suffered a third stroke and lost his ability to speak; [322] that month ...
In 1918, the party renamed itself the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) at Lenin's suggestion. In 1925, this was changed to All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). At the 19th Party Congress in 1952 the Party was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at Stalin's suggestion.
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party. Leon Trotsky , founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution . Modern revolutionary activity in the Russian Empire began with the 1825 Decembrist revolt .
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party. Leon Trotsky , founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution . In the aftermath of the October Revolution , the soviets united federally and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , the world's first constitutionally socialist state ...
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 the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union and the leader of the Bolshevik party. Leon Trotsky , founder of the Red Army and a key figure in the October Revolution . During World War I , Tsarist Russia experienced military humiliation, famine and economic collapse.