Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Books

Some Features of the Present Collapse

  [english | 1898]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Anarchy In Petrograd. The War: 4th Year 1908th. Aided by the garrisol of Petrograd the Maximalists under Lenin have deposed the Kerensky Government and have assumed office. They announce that this was acomplished without bloodshed that several Ministers have been arrested and that M. Kerensky is a fugitive. In a proclamation to the Arrny Committees they state that authority of Government has been ...]
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Some Sources of the Present Ideological Discord

  [english | 1913]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [It took a good deal of negotiation and courage for Lenin and a group of like-minded Russian revolutionaries to travel from Switzerland back to Russia through the enemy country of Germany. The man who returned to Russia in the spring of 1917 was of medium height quite bald except for the back of his head with a reddish beard. The features of his face were strikingslanted eyes that looked ...]
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SPEECH AT A MEETING OF DELEGATES FROM THE POOR PEASANTS COMMITTEES 1918 Vol I

  [english | 1918]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The revolution and the introduction of a planned economy laid the basis for the transformation of Russia from the India of Europe to the second most powerful economy and country on the globe. Despite the squandering of the advantages of the planned economy by the monstrous one-party totalitarian regime which subsequently arose the Russian Revolution has been more than justified in the colossal ...]
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SPEECH AT A MEETING OF DELEGATES FROM THE POOR PEASANTS COMMITTEES 1918 Vol II

  [english | 1909]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Over the next twelve years bolshevism which had begun as a faction within the Russian Social-Democratic Workers party gradually emerged as an independent party that had cut its ties with all other Russian Marxists. The process involved long and bitter arguments against Mensheviks as well as against all those who worked to reunite the factions. It involved fights over funds struggles for control ...]
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SPEECH AT A NON PARTY CONFERENCE OF WORKERS AND MEN OF THE RED ARMY 1919

  [english | 1919]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Bolsheviks: Revolutionary wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party which under the leadership of Lenin led the working class to the taking of power in October 1917. Trotsky and his supporters joined the Bolshevik Party at its conference of July 1917 past differences between them having been resolved through the experience of the revolution. He was elected to the Bolshevik central ...]
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SPEECH AT A PLENARY SESSION OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET

  [english | 1904]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [In the April Theses therefore Lenin called for a struggle for a socialist program based on the independent action of the working class. Its main elements were: No Support for the Provisional government. Fight for the Soviets to take power. End the war. Confiscate the big estates. Nationalize the banks. Establish workers control of industry. Replace the police and army with a workers ...]
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SPEECH AT AN ENLARGED CONFERENCE OF WORKERS AND RED ARMY MEN 1920

  [english | 1903]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [As stated in his Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenins revolutionary project embraced not just Russia but the world. To implement world revolution the Third or Communist International was convened in Russia in 1919 to replace the discredited Second International. Lenin dominated the first second (1920) and third (1921) Congresses of the International and hoped to use the organisation ...]
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SPEECH AT PRESNYA DISTRICT WORKERS CONFERENCE

  [english | 1910]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Before he became the general of the revolution Lenin was its pedant the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics. His theories of what society ought to be and how that ideal must be achieved were the products of thousands of hours spent reading. The incomprehensibility of Lenin is precisely this all-consuming intellectuality--the fact that ...]
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SPEECH AT THE CONGRESS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF SWITZERLAND 1916

  [english | 1903]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The Russian statesman Vladimir Lenin was a profoundly influential figure in world history. As the founder of the Bolshevik political party he was a successful revolutionary leader who presided over Russias transformation from a country ruled by czars (emperors) to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) the name of the communist Russian state from 1922 to 1991.]
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SPEECH AT THE FIRST ALL RUSSIA CONGRESS OF WORKERS IN EDUCATION 1919

  [english | 1903]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Has the Russian revolution been successfully extended internationally with the development of a socialist federation embracing economically advanced countries the discussion of pre-1917 perspectives would now be of only historical interest to Marxists. Unfortunately with the defeat of the revolution in Europe Soviet Russia was isolated. The revolution suffered an inevitable degeneration. The ...]
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SPEECH AT THE FIRST ALL RUSSIA CONGRESS ON EDUCATION

  [english | 1909]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The Russian Revolution of 1917 is also called the Bolshevik Revolution or the October Revolution. In 1917 there were actually two revolutions in Russia. One was the February Revolution in which the Tsar abdicated his throne and the Provisional Government took power. The other was the October Revolution in which the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks. The Russian Revolution ...]
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SPEECH AT THE UNVEILING OF A MEMORIAL TO MARX AND ENGELS 1918

  [english | 1915]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Every revolution begins at the top as the ruling class with no clear way forward split over what course of action to take. In January 1916 a strike wave developed against food shortages and speculators. Feeling the movement building up from below a section of the ruling class favored making limited concessions. During late 1916 the mystic monk Rasputin was murdered and plots were laid for a ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEETING OF ACTIVISTS 1920

  [english | 1908]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Every revolution begins at the top as the ruling class with no clear way forward split over what course of action to take. In January 1916 a strike wave developed against food shortages and speculators. Feeling the movement building up from below a section of the ruling class favored making limited concessions. During late 1916 the mystic monk Rasputin was murdered and plots were laid for a ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT AN INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN BERNE FEBRUARY 1916

  [english | 1897]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Lenins April Theses form one of the most decisive manifestos in the history of the revolution. They consist of just a few short notes the bare skeleton of Lenins speeches when he arrived back in Petrograd in April 1917. But the ideas outlined within them brought about a decisive reorientation of the Bolshevik leadership. Lynn Walsh re-examines the April Theses and their lessons for today. Lenins ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE ALL RUSSIA CONGRESS OF TRANSPORT WORKERS

  [english | 1917]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Anarchy In Petrograd. The War: 4th Year 1908th. Aided by the garrisol of Petrograd the Maximalists under Lenin have deposed the Kerensky Government and have assumed office. They announce that this was acomplished without bloodshed that several Ministers have been arrested and that M. Kerensky is a fugitive. In a proclamation to the Arrny Committees they state that authority of Government has been ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIRST ALL RUSSIA CONFERENCE ON PARTY WORK IN THE COUNTRYSIDE 1919

  [english | 1912]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [It took a good deal of negotiation and courage for Lenin and a group of like-minded Russian revolutionaries to travel from Switzerland back to Russia through the enemy country of Germany. The man who returned to Russia in the spring of 1917 was of medium height quite bald except for the back of his head with a reddish beard. The features of his face were strikingslanted eyes that looked ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIRST CONGRESS OF AGRICULTURAL COMMUNES 1919

  [english | 1904]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [ Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution Lenin headed the ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE SECOND ALL RUSSIA CONFERENCE 1920

  [english | 1917]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [After the defeat of the July Days the Bolsheviks had their backs to the wall. Their press had been smashed and many of their leaders were also being hounded. The reaction was further boosted by the revelation that Lenin was really in the pay of the German government (with which Russia was still at war). This lie peddled by a couple of drunken adventurers implausible though it was was suddenly ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE THIRD ALL RUSSIA TRADE UNION CONGRESS 1920

  [english | 1896]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The birth of the Cesarevitch Alexis Nicolaievitch in August 1904 caused great rejoicings in Russia because it had been preceded by the birth of four daughters to the lmnperial couple and there seemed reason to fear that the succession to the Throne would not descend in the direct line. The joy of the Imperial Family was increased when it was found that the child was of a bright active disposition ...]
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SPEECH DELIVERED TO A MEETING OF DELEGATES FROM THE MOSCOW CENTRAL WORKERS 1918

  [english | 1901]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [Before he became the general of the revolution Lenin was its pedant the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics. His theories of what society ought to be and how that ideal must be achieved were the products of thousands of hours spent reading. The incomprehensibility of Lenin is precisely this all-consuming intellectuality--the fact that ...]
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