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Read considered him "one of the most widespread, universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century", [519] while Ryan called him "one of the most significant and influential figures of modern history". [520] Time magazine named Lenin one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, [521] and one of their top 25 political icons of ...
Following on from his early life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire and converted to Marxism, Lenin moved to St. Petersburg. There he joined a revolutionary cell, and became a vocal advocate for Marxism within the revolutionary socialist movement.
Lenin said that the appearance of new socialist states was necessary for strengthening Russia's economy in establishing Russian socialism. Lenin's socio-economic perspective was supported by the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Italian insurrection and general strikes of 1920, and worker wage-riots in the UK, France, and the US.
The concept was introduced by Vladimir Lenin in 1913, in his article "Маёвка революционного пролетариата" [1] (Mayovka of the Revolutionary Proletariat). In the article two conditions for a revolutionary situation were described, which were later succinctly phrased as "the bottoms don't want and the tops cannot ...
The Soviet government publicly announced Lenin's death the following day, with head of State Mikhail Kalinin tearfully reading an official statement to delegates of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets at 11am, the same time that a team of physicians began a postmortem of the body. [329]
Lenin has been variously described as "the century's most significant political leader", [295] "one of the undeniably outstanding figures of modern history" [296] and one of the 20th century's "principal actors" [297] as well as "one of the most widespread, universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century" [298] and "one of the most ...
Bukele’s reign has all the hallmarks of an autocrat—he even welcomes the associations, trolling his critics by branding his social media accounts as the “world’s coolest dictator.”
The debate on whether Lenin's regime was totalitarian is a part of a debate between the so-called "totalitarian, or "traditionalist" (and "neo-traditionalist"), school", rooted in the early years of the Cold War and also described as "conservative" and "anti-Communist" by Ronald Suny, and the so-called "revisionists"; the former is represented ...