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1870–1924 Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married the revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
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History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
We have invited and continue to invite the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to share power with us.
Use both bribery and threats to exterminate every Cossack to a man if they set fire to the oil in Guriev.
In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.
We know that an unskilled labourer or a cook cannot immediately get on with the job of state administration.
Will the Bolsheviks Retain Government Power? (1917)
Let us get down to work, to slower, more cautious, more persevering and persistent work!
The proletarian revolution calls for a prolonged education of the workers in the spirit of the fullest equality and brotherhood.
Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation.
Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction.
Tsarism regards the war as a means of diverting attention from the mounting discontent within the country and of suppressing the growing revolutionary movement.
The proletarian state must effect the transition to collective farming with extreme caution and only very gradually, by the force of example, without any coercion of the middle peasant.
The state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it creates "order," which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the collision between the classes.
The State and Revolution (1917)
I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.
Stalin : A Biography (2004)
Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness — voilà the epistemological roots of idealism.
We have more than fully 'justified' our revolutionary activity; we have shown the whole world by our deeds what proletarian revolutionism is capable.
There can be nothing more abominable than religion.
Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes!
A full definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.
All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man’s brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.
The transformation of numerous intermediaries into a handful of monopolists represents one of the fundamental processes in the transformation of capitalism into capitalist imperialism.
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
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