Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 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, his political theories are known as Leninism...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth22 April 1870
CountryRussian Federation
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
International unity of the workers is more important than the national.
Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.