What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dissanayake’s subsequent victory over candidates from Sri Lanka’s two long-ruling political camps has put the left-wing populist — who has cited Marx, Lenin and Engels as his top heroes ...
The latter-day communists have not learned the flexibility of Lenin, the willingness to compromise. One cannot make a revolution or achieve radical transformation by following a straight line. One ...
When famed car designer Sasha Selipanov unveiled his own hypercar, the Nilu27, in August, several journalists asked about the name. Nilu is a portmanteau of his daughters' names, Nica and Lucia ...