Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its incapacity to call an end to the "imperialist" war that Russia found itself in and calls for further ...

This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February Revolution ... Lenin undertook an extensive study of the writings of Marx and Engels on the subject of the state.

7 November marked the centennial of the October Revolution—an event that, whatever you think of it, has done much to define the entire twentieth century. And of course, the main figure in these ...

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1905 Revolution — Causes and events The 1905 revolution was consequence of huge inequalities and the reaction of the Tsar to such far reaching discontent was minor concessions amounting to ...

The thinkers discussed comprise Thucydides, Augustine of Hippo, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Clausewitz, Lenin and Mao, Carl Schmitt. These paradigmatic thinkers challenge the presuppositions of ...

Communism and socialism are political and economic systems that are historically related but often confused with each other.

On January 21, 1924, Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the Czars into the Soviet empire whose characteristics persist. The abundant ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin ... state. And through them, we hear how the Communist dream turned into a nightmare. Twenty-five-year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution ...

Lenin and Mao, Carl Schmitt, and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. These paradigmatic thinkers challenge the presuppositions of contemporary liberal egalitarianism and state focused models of politics ...

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...