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
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.
The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.
Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.