He also claimed to be well acquainted with Pope Benedict XV and he informed Vladimir Lenin via cable that the ousted former Minister-President Hoffmann had fled to Bamberg and taken the key to the ministry toilet with him.

For instance, the Foreign Affairs Deputy Dr. ( who had been admitted several times to psychiatric hospitals ) informed Vladimir Lenin via cable that the ousted former Minister-President Hoffmann had fled to Bamberg and taken the key to the ministry toilet with him.

Gapon and Rutenberg fled abroad, being welcomed in Europe both by prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau.

In Petrograd, Lenin was thwarted during the " July Days " and forced to flee to Finland.

At this phase, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, under threat in Petrograd, urged the Social Democrats to seize power in Finland, which was an important defensive area against the German threat and a vital backup zone for the Bolsheviks in and around Petrograd.

Lenin calculated that the Bolsheviks could perhaps hold central parts of Russia but would have to give up some territories on its periphery, including Finland in the less important north-western corner.

When the conflict began, Lenin tried to commit the army on behalf of Red Finland, but the troops were demoralized, war-weary and home-sick after years of World War I.

During the war, the Bolsheviks struggled for survival, and Vladimir Lenin had no option except to recognize the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

* July 16 – July 18 – Serious clashes in St. Petersburg in July Days ; Lenin escapes to Finland ; Trotsky is arrested.

On 16 April ( 3 April according to the old Russian Calendar ), 1917, Lenin arrived by train to a tumultuous reception at Finland Station in Petrograd.

The Treaty was signed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin from the Russian side and by Council of Peoples Representatives of Finland Edvard Gylling and Oskari Tokoi.

Vladimir Lenin managed to travel over the border in secrecy to Finland in 1907.

To support the anti war sentiment in Russia, it let the leader of the Russian Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, pass in a sealed train wagon from his exile in Switzerland through Germany, Sweden and Finland to Petrograd.

He was awarded five Orders of Lenin, one Order of the Red Banner and several medals, as well as being awarded several foreign state prizes by the People's Republic of Bulgaria, the Mongolian People's Republic, the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, and Finland.

Locomotive of Lenin ’ s train, on which he arrived at Finlyandsky Rail Terminal | Finland Station, St. Petersburg | Petrograd in April, 1917. The fact some critics, especially in the West, have considered the Twelfth among the least satisfying musically of Shostakovich's symphonies cannot be attributed to a creative slump, given that he had recently written the First Cello Concerto and the Eighth String Quartet.

During the war, the Bolsheviks struggled for survival, and Vladimir Lenin had no option except recognize the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

No 293 is preserved at the Finland Station, St. Petersburg, Russia as the locomotive that brought Lenin from exile before the Russian Revolution, in August-September 1917.

With Lenin in hiding in Finland, the parliamentary line – advocated by Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev and Rykov against Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky – at first prevailed.

On October 7, Lenin secretly arrived in Petrograd from Finland.

Locomotive of Lenin ’ s train, on which he arrived at Finlyandsky Rail Terminal | Finland Station, St. Petersburg | Petrograd in April 1917.

Lenin journeys from Switzerland across Germany by so-called “ sealed train ”, eventually arriving to a tumultuous reception at Finland Station in Petrograd to play a leading role in the Russian Revolution.

For White Nights, a team of travelogue filmmakers from Finland, who previously had done work in the Soviet Union, were hired to film a number of locations in Leningrad, such as the Kirov Theater and the Lenin monument, as well as a Chaika state limosine.

However he obtained permission to spend his exile abroad, and joined Lenin in Kokkola, Finland.

* The pseudonym Vilén was used by Vladimir Ilich Lenin while hiding in Finland

It was from the balcony of her elegant house that Vladimir Lenin addressed the revolutionary crowd when he returned from Finland in 1917.

On November 11, 1917, Sirola arrived in Petrograd with his comrade Evert Huttunen, where he met with Lenin at Smolnyi about how radicals in Finland might aid the Bolshevik uprising and about revolutionary prospects in Finland.

Martov, until then a close friend of Lenin, agreed with him that the core of the party should consist of professional revolutionaries, but argued that party membership should be open to sympathizers, revolutionary workers and other fellow travelers.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Criticism of other officials was allowed during these meetings, for instance, Karl Radek said to Lenin ( criticising his position of supporting peace with the Germans ), " If there were five hundred courageous men in Petrograd, we would put you in prison.

Lenin develops these in a further series of notes, and appears to argue that " the transition of quantity into quality and vice versa " is an example of the unity and opposition of opposites expressed tentatively as " not only the unity of opposites, but the transitions of every determination, quality, feature, side, property into every other its opposite ?.

The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

In 1917 Radek was one of the passengers on the " sealed train " that carried Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries through Germany after the February Revolution in Russia.

Once abroad, he moved to London to join Georgi Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov and other editors of Iskra.

Trotsky spent much of his time between 1904 and 1917 trying to reconcile different groups within the party, which resulted in many clashes with Lenin and other prominent party members.

The most serious disagreement that Trotsky and the Mensheviks had with Lenin at the time was over the issue of " expropriations ", i. e., armed robberies of banks and other companies by Bolshevik groups to procure money for the Party, which had been banned by the 5th Congress, but continued by the Bolsheviks.

Within the RSDLP, Lenin, Trotsky and Martov advocated various internationalist anti-war positions, while Plekhanov and other social democrats ( both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks ) supported the Russian government to some extent.

Allied with Lenin, he defeated attempts by other Bolshevik Central Committee members ( Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexey Rykov, etc.

Lenin, who had earlier hoped for a speedy Soviet revolution in Germany and other parts of Europe, quickly decided that the imperial government of Germany was still firmly in control and that, without a strong Russian military, an armed conflict with Germany would lead to a collapse of the Soviet government in Russia.

( 1902 ), Lenin proposed that a revolutionary vanguard party, mostly recruited from the working class, should lead the political campaign, because it was the only way that the proletariat could successfully achieve a revolution ; unlike the economist campaign of trade-union-struggle advocated by other socialist political parties ; and later by the anarcho-syndicalists.

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

More nuanced versions of this general view are to be found in the works of other Western historians, such as Robert Service, who notes that " institutionally and ideologically, Lenin laid the foundations for a Stalin ... but the passage from Leninism to the worse terrors of Stalinism was not smooth and inevitable.

As Ossinsky in particular argued, " one-man management " ( rather than the democratic factory committees workers had established and Lenin abolished ) and the other impositions of capitalist discipline would stifle the active participation of workers in the organisation of production ; Taylorism converted workers into the appendages of machines, and piece work imposed individualist rather than collective rewards in production so instilling petty bourgeois values into workers.

On November 10, 1917, three days after the Soviet seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped the uprising's leaders, Lenin and Trotsky, from the government.

After the Russian monarchy was overthrown during the February Revolution, he returned to Russia in April 1917 in a sealed train with Lenin and other revolutionaries opposed to the war.

On October 29, 1917 ( Julian calendar ), immediately after the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and Leon Trotsky from the government.

In part two of them ( Gagarin and Lenin ) includes only the streets, and the other two ( Balaklava and Nakhimovskiy district ) are also subject to 28 villages surrounding the city and more than 30 settlements without the status of settlement ( such as agricultural or special settlements ).

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.

In a period immediately after the Russian Revolution, the mode in which democracy was organised ( elections within workplace ' soviets ') automatically disenfranchised capitalists ( who weren't a part of the workforce ); however, Marxists such as Lenin argued that other forms of a ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' in more developed countries would include capitalists among the electorate.

As seen by Lenin, Russia was reverting back to the rule of the Tsar, and it was the job of Marxist revolutionaries, who truly represented socialism and the proletariat, to oppose such counter-socialistic ideas and support socialist revolutions in other countries.

The juxtaposition of the poverty, homelessness, exploitive work conditions, prostitution, and infant mortality of Whitechapel and other East End locales with some of the greatest personal wealth the world has ever seen made it a focal point for leftist reformers and revolutionaries of all kinds, from George Bernard Shaw, whose Fabian Society met regularly in Whitechapel, to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who boarded and led rallies in Whitechapel during his exile from Russia.