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The Russian statesman Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) was the creator of the Bolshevik party, the Soviet state, and the Third International. He was a successful revolutionary leader and an important ...
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In the following essay, Mikulak discusses Lenin's theory of the "partyness" of science and philosophy as evidenced in his Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.
The Soviet Communist C...
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In the following essay, Le Blanc contends the core of pure Leninism is the revolutionary Bolshevik movement.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the foremost leader of the world's first working-class soc...
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In the following essay, Morawski explicates Lenin's writings on art and literature.
Lenin's statements on literature do not constitute a system. We know that Lenin was not an esthetician...
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In the following essay, Toynbee explains why Lenin remains one of the most important twentieth-century historical figures despite the failure of communism.
Everyone has been speaking or writing of Len...
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In the following essay, Feuer argues that Lenin's philosophical beliefs vacillated between sober materialism and Utopian fantasy.
"'We ought to dream!' I wrote these words ...
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In the following essay, Barfield contends that State and Revolution is Lenin's credo on human nature, and as such should not be dismissed as mere utopianism, as many critics have done.
General ...
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In the following essay, Mathewson argues that Lenin's article Party Organization and Party Literature and Maxim Gorky's novel Mother together ushered in a new era in Russian thinking tha...
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In the following essay, Tumarkin examines the cult of Lenin that sprang up in Russia after the leader's death.
In 1925, one year after Lenin's death, a story, called "Clever Lenin...
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In the following essay, Siegel concludes that Alexander Solzhenitsyn's portrayal of Lenin in Lenin in Zurich bears little resemblance to the personality of the historical Lenin.
Alexander Solzh...
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In the following essay, Evans argues that Lenin's State and Revolution is not antithetical to the rest of Lenin's work, as most critics contend, but rather that the "tension betwe...
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10. Discuss the political impact on Lenin's sickness during the years 1922-1924.
Eventhough the "reds" had achieved military success when wining the civil war, the political support from peasants and...
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In 1917 Russia was in political turmoil. The Tsar, whose Romanov dynasty had been in power for 200 years, had fallen. Tsar Nicholas II had abdicated and in his position was placed a provisional gove...
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