Suppose he did lie beside Lenin, would it be permanent??

During the heated debates in the Central Committee about a possible peace with the Germans, Lenin did not have a majority ; both Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin had more support for their own position than Lenin.

" Trotsky did face a problem however: he had previously disagreed with Lenin on several matters.

Under Lenin the Central Committee functioned like the Politburo did during the post-Stalin era, as the party's leading collective organ.

Thus he supported the Irish independence movement and the anti-czarist Russian Revolution of 1917, but did not approve of Vladimir Lenin.

Lenin did not mind prolonging the negotiating process for maximum propaganda effect, but, from January 1918 on, advocated signing a separate peace treaty if faced with a German ultimatum.

Although a guiding influence in policy, Lenin did not exercise absolute power, and continually debated and discussed to have his point of view accepted.

Under Stalin, the inner-party practice of democratic free debate did not continue after the death of Lenin in 1924.

Lenin did not regard such political suppression as philosophically inherent to the dictatorship of the proletariat ; yet the Stalinists retrospectively claimed that such factional suppression was original to Leninism.

Despite advice to refuse “ any rotten compromise ”, Trotsky did not heed Lenin ’ s advice, and General Secretary Stalin retained power over the Communist Party and the bureaucracy of the soviet government.

This was an original development by Lenin, as prior to the 20th century Marxists did not pay serious attention to colonialism and colonial revolt.

Lenin set up a political bureau in 1917 specifically to direct the Revolution, but this precursor did not outlast the event ; the Central Committee continued with the political functions.

Therefore it is wrong to claim, as the official Soviet historians later did, that Dzerzhinsky had been one of Lenin's oldest and most reliable comrades, or that Lenin had exercised some sort of spellbinding influence on Dzerzhinsky and the SDKPiL.

Lenin nevertheless continued to emphasise however ( as did Trotsky also ) the classical Marxist position that the peasantry formed a basis for the development of capitalism, not socialism.

He did not, however, respond when Narayanan pointed out that he had defeated Communist candidates ( A. K. Balan and Lenin Rajendran, the latter twice ) in all three elections.

Though Taylor normally preferred to portray leaders as fools blundering their way forward, it is fair to add that he did think that individuals sometimes could play a positive role in history — his heroes were Vladimir Lenin and David Lloyd George.

) Trotsky's theory took it for granted ( as did Lenin in The State and Revolution ) that the domination of the world by the bourgeoisie was complete and irreversible after the emergence of imperialism in the late 19th century.

Some socialist realist propaganda art features Vladimir Lenin manning the gun himself, but it is very unlikely that he ever did so.

Vladimir Lenin, although welcoming this act of " great Soviet fraternity " where " boundaries had no meaning among the family of Soviet peoples ," did not agree with the motion and instead called for the people of Nakhchivan to be consulted in a referendum.

" He also disliked it when the Afghan leadership tried to justify their murderous actions on the grounds that Vladimir Lenin also did it.

Only the Italians accepted the need for electoral work at all for a very short period of time, which they later vehemently opposed, attracting the wrath of Lenin attacking Bordiga in " Left-Wing " Communism: An Infantile Disorder, the German-Dutch and Russian wings opposed the " right of nations to self-determination " which they denounced as a form of bourgeois nationalism, the Italians did not have a clear position on national determination however.

After the death of Lenin in 1924, the ruling stratum of the Soviet Union, consolidated around Stalin, was held to be a bureaucratic caste, and not a new ruling class, because its political control did not also extend to economic ownership.

Rejecting Mao's idealistic, communitarian values but not necessarily the values of Marx and Lenin, Deng emphasized that socialism did not mean shared poverty ( thus repudiating the Gang of Four's slogan " We would rather be poor under socialism than rich under capitalism.

Moreover, in post – Lenin Russia, in the 1925 – 29 period, Joseph Stalin integrated Leninism to Marxist economics, and developed Marxism – Leninism, which then became the Communist state ideology of the USSR.

Marxism – Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of an international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party presiding over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Lenin stated " Our poverty is so great that we cannot at one stroke restore full-scale factory, state, socialist production ".

Eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and created the world ’ s first socialist state.

Vladimir Lenin accepted the Marxist conception of the law and the state as instruments of coercion in the hands of the bourgeoisie and postulated the creation of popular, informal tribunals to administer revolutionary justice.

The NEP had been implemented by Lenin in order to ensure the survival of the Communist state following seven years of war ( 1914 – 1921, World War I from 1914 to 1917, and the subsequent Civil War ) and had rebuilt Soviet production to its 1913 levels.

They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".

In 1914 Vladmir Lenin wrote: " would be wrong to interpret the right to self-determination as meaning anything but the right to existence as a separate state.

In spring 1918, during a brief period of economic liberalism prior to the introduction of war communism, and again during the New Economic Policy ( NEP ) of 1921, Lenin justified the introduction of state capitalism controlled politically by the dictatorship of the proletariat to further central control and develop the productive forces:

* Rise to power of the Bolsheviks in Russia under Vladimir Lenin, creating the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the first state committed to the establishment of communism.

It also declared UDI, that is, a declaration of independence which remained until the end of the Republic unrecognised by any other world state except the Russian Republic under Lenin.

Cuba is constitutionally defined as a " socialist state guided by the principles of José Martí, and the political ideas of Marx, the father of communist states, Engels and Lenin.

Meanwhile, the state still maintained state ownership of what Lenin deemed the " commanding heights " of the economy: heavy industry such as the coal, iron, and metallurgical sectors along with the banking and financial components of the economy.

The first leaders of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were in exile on the territory of the nowadays krai in 1897 – 1900 and in 1903 respectively.

During the establishment of the Russian SFSR, Vladimir Lenin and his colleagues had considered the inclusion of a sword symbol in addition to the hammer and sickle as part of the state seal on which the flag was eventually based.

This is what the great founder of our state, Vladimir Lenin, taught us.

Contemporary left communist theory defends that Lenin was mistaken on his definition of imperialism ( although how grave his mistake was and how much of his work on imperialism is valid varies from groups to groups ) and Rosa Luxemburg to be basically correct on this question, thus accepting capitalism as a world epoch similarly to Lenin, but a world epoch from which no capitalist state can oppose or avoid being a part of.

The New Economic Policy ( NEP ) (, Novaya Ekonomicheskaya Politika ) was an economic policy proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it state capitalism.

Bevanites ' views towards nationalisation mirrored those of Vladimir Lenin, in that state control was only seen as necessary in the context of exchange or distribution, as opposed to the total and immediate appropriation of as much private property as possible.

He received numerous state awards both before and after the Zhdanov decree: for example, four Stalin prizes ( 1941, 1943, 1946 and 1950 ), one Lenin prize ( 1959 ), a USSR State Prize ( 1971 ), and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1973 ).

Despite the traditional marital lives of Lenin and most Bolsheviks, they believed that sexual relations were outside the jurisdiction of the state.

Lenin was arguing by 1917 not only that the Russian bourgeoisie would not be able to carry through the tasks of the Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and therefore the proletariat had to take state power, but also that it should take economic power via a Soviet ( council ).