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  2. Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    Stalin →. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov[b] (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

  3. One Divides into Two - Wikipedia

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    One Divides into Two. The One Divides into Two (一分为二) controversy was an ideological debate about the nature of contradiction that took place in China in 1964. [1] The concept originated in Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks. The philosopher Yang Xianzhen originated the idea of "Two Unites into One", which he said was the primary law of ...

  4. Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    January 1918. On January 1, 1918, the first unsuccessful attempt on Lenin 's life took place in Petrograd, in which Friedrich Platten was slightly hit by a bullet. According to one of the versions of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), Dmitry Shakhovskoy was the organizer of the assassination attempt on January 1, 1918. [1]

  5. Man at the Crossroads - Wikipedia

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    The controversial portrait of Lenin, as seen in the recreated painting. On 24 April 1933, the New York World-Telegram published an article attacking the mural as anti-capitalist propaganda. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] As a defiant response to the article, [ 25 ] Rivera or one of his assistants added a portrait of Lenin to the mural, which had not been ...

  6. April Theses - Wikipedia

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    Manifestation of war veterans and invalids in Petrograd on 17 April 1917 against Lenin's arrival. The April Theses (Russian: апрельские тезисы, transliteration: aprel'skie tezisy) were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his April 1917 return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.

  7. Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia

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    Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances." [25] In his diary, Trotsky emphasised that he understood Lenin's reasoning, on the grounds that the militant workers and soldiers of Yekaterinburg would not have accepted any other course of action [170]

  8. Lenin's hanging order - Wikipedia

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    Lenin's hanging order. Lenin's hanging order is a telegram from Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin ordering the suppression and execution of captured participants in the kulak revolt in the Penza Governorate. It was first called the "Hanging Order" by the U.S. Library of Congress. [1] The telegram was addressed to Vasily Kurayev [ru] (Penza Soviet ...

  9. Government of Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    Lenin's political program, October 1918 Lenin's new regime issued a series of decrees, the first of which was a Decree on Land ; drawing heavily upon the Socialist-Revolutionary Party's platform, it declared that the landed estates owned by the aristocracy and the Russian Orthodox Church should be confiscated, taken into national ownership, and then redistributed among the peasants by the ...