Word: lenin
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...perhaps the eventual dismantlement of the party, it stands to reason he would want to give up the general secretaryship and move all his books, files and telephones into his other office at Supreme Soviet headquarters. It will be interesting to see if he brings along his portrait of Lenin...
...Lenin, on listening to Beethoven...
...nine were promptly arrested. The fact that the heirs of this absurd little group actually did overthrow the Russian government not 22 years later was due largely to the malign genius of one man who wasn't even present at the Minsk meeting: Vladimir Ulyanov, who called himself Lenin (also at various times Meyer, Richter and Jordanov...
...highly cultured schoolteacher, Lenin was expelled from school for taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with Marxism led him to Switzerland, to an encounter with the exiled Georgi Plekhanov, the eminence grise of Russian Marxism; then to meetings with other radicals in Paris and Berlin; then, on his return home, to arrest, trial, jail and exile in Siberia. So Lenin was far away when the Social Democratic Party...
...tiny party immediately divided. Lenin was determined that it should remain small, highly disciplined and "as conspiratorial as possible." It must be the "vanguard of the working class" but no more than a vanguard. Lenin's more open-minded opponents wanted to take in any and all supporters, find partners and make coalitions. Lenin, as usual, insisted on getting his way, and he got it. With their majority, the Leninists took the name of Bolshevik, after bolshoi, big. The smaller group was called Mensheviks (minority...