Vladimir Lenin Quotes


Trotsky has earned it by his brilliant and unflagging work


Context

Vladimir Lenin. Early in the Russian Revolution, Trotsky was thought of as the leading and most prestigious member of the revolution while formal positions and constitutions were being developed. Lenin himself thought this reasonable. Later, Stalin would have Trotsky assassinated.


Citations

Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier

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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
  • Born: April 22, 1870
  • Died: January 21, 1924
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Revolutionary, Politician

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.