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The group travelled by train from Zürich to Sassnitz, proceeding by ferry to Trelleborg, Sweden, and from there to the Haparanda–Tornio border crossing and then to Helsinki before taking the final train to Petrograd. [129] The engine that pulled the train on which Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station in April 1917 was not preserved ...
The stress of this position exacerbated Lenin's health problems, in particular his headaches and insomnia. [15] In December, he and Nadezdha left Petrograd for a holiday at the tuberculosis sanatorium at Halila in Finland – now officially an independent nation-state – although returned to the city after a few days. [16]
Iskra quickly became the most successful underground Russian newspaper since 1850s. [6] It was smuggled into Russia via Romania, and reprinted on secret presses in Kishinev and the Caucasus. [1] Using the networks created to write for and distribute the paper, Lenin and Julius Martov prepared organisationally for the Second Congress of the ...
Contains border crossings between Russia and other countries and territories. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. C.
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.”
Lenin sees the monopolies' oligarchical powers as a symptom of a transitional era and a "moribund" capitalism. Lenin thus argues that advanced capitalist nation-states and cartels exploit both their own citizens and the resources and people of other countries, creating a parasitic relationship that allows cartels to profit and expand. This ...
Finnish border guards and soldiers began erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia to ...
The Decree on Peace, written by Vladimir Lenin, was passed by the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the 8 November [O.S. 26 October] 1917, following the October Revolution. [1] It was published in the Izvestiya newspaper, #208, 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1917.