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Vladimir Lenin Biography

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,[a] better known by the alias Lenin[b] (/ˈlɛnɪn/; 22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.

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In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Capitalism, Funeral, Sung, Triumph, World

All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

Class, Defense, Organization, Organs, Religious, Viewed

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Creativity, Immersed, People, Spring, Victory

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Atheism, Expedience, Justice, Morals, Political, Politics

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Break, Class, Hold, Smash, States

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Let, Party, Rigorous, Two, Years

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Development, Domination, Part, Towards, Trends

It is stupid to tolerate Nikola; all Chekists have to be on alert to shoot anyone who doesn't turn up to work because of Nikola.

Chekists, Stupid, Tolerate, Turn, Turns, Work

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

Analysis, Important, Productivity, Social, Victory

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

Government, Needs, Provoked, Unrest, Wise

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

Ability, Apply, Determined, Kind, Methods, Revolutionary

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Bah, Good, Pigeons, Revolutionary, Tombstone

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Car, Drive, Man, Men, Moving, State

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Bourgeois, Commodity, People, Relation, Saws, Things

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Arch, Arches, Medicine, Socialism

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Freedom, Honesty, Hypocrisy, Politics, Weakness

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

America, Class, Disarming, Victory, Workers

For any truth, if “overdone” (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.

Absurdity, Bound, Conditions, Exaggerated, Limits

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

Church, Fund, Hundred, Mean, Necessary, Order

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Bourgeoisie, Force, Law, Use, Won

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