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 Communis...
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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 ...
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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 esthetic...
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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 ...
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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 wor...
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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.
Gener...
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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 Le...
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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 So...
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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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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
THE IMPERIAL FAMILY (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Feb. 24)
Many parents com...
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A team of British and Canadian explorers endured seven weeks of howling winds and subzero temperatures to become the first expedition to reach the geographic center of Antarctica without any mechan...
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The fate of one of Moscow's most famous symbols _ the tomb of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin _ should be put to Russia's voters, a top Kremlin official said in an interview published Wednesday.The c...
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Moscow (dpa) - Thousands of communists took to the streets in
Russia and individual former Soviet republics on Wednesday to
commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Great Soc...
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Dec 28 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 4 since 1900: 1908 - Mulai Hafid was proclaimed Sultan of Morocco at Fez. 1923 - Dying Soviet leader Vladimir ...
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Most Americans have long resumed the daily grind after New Year celebrations, but millions of Russians only returned to work this week _ stumbling back to reality after an official holiday whose le...
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2007. There are 344 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 21, 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI, condemned for treaso...
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Moscow (dpa) - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday travelled
to the Russian republic of Tatarstan, where the leader of the world's
fastest-growing communist economy ove...
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President Vladimir Putin welcomed firebrand Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for talks at the Russian presidential retreat outside Moscow on Thursday, saying economic affairs and military-technical co...
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Moscow (dpa) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took aim at US
President George W Bush and capitalism in Moscow Thursday, a day
after the fiery South American socialist arri...
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Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Critical Essay by M. W. Mikulak
The Political Impact on Lenin's Sickness During the Years 1922-1924
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