* 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik movement to power in Russia, as Mussolini himself desired a revolution in Italy to bring the Fascists to power.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

In the end, the economic and political investments that Germany had made in Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin had paid off.

Trotsky was so upset by what he saw as a usurpation of his newspaper's name that in April 1913 he wrote a letter to Nikolay Chkheidze, a Menshevik leader, bitterly denouncing Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Vladimir Lenin, leader of both the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | RSFSR and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1924, was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century.

Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution

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

Thus Lenin remained the enfant terrible of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, although in this point in the war his following in Russia was as little as 10 000 and he must have seemed no more than the leader of an extremist wing of a bankrupt organization.

In April 1917 Germany allowed Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia from his exile in Switzerland, and offered him financial help.

) – Great October Socialist Revolution: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government, resulting in the first overthrow of capitalism in history.

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, argued that a revolutionary party should be a small vanguard party with a centralized political command and a strict cadre policy ; the Menshevik faction, however, argued that the party should be a broad-based mass movement.

In the Soviet Union, after Vladimir Lenin incapacitated from a stroke in 1923, Joseph Stalin — who, as General Secretary of the Communist Party had the power to appoint anyone he chose to top party positions — eventually emerged as leader of the Party and the legitimate government.

In 1928 the mountain was renamed Lenin Peak after the Russian revolutionary and first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin.

When Joseph Stalin returned to the capital, he reversed Molotov's line ; but when the party leader, Vladimir Lenin, arrived, he overruled Stalin.

Revolutionary and socialist leader Vladimir Lenin praised Sun and the KMT for their ideology and principles.

Chen remained as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party until 1927, and was often referred to as " China's Lenin " during this period.

In the poem " Vladimir Ilyich Lenin " ( 1924 ), Mayakovsky looks at the life and work at the leader of Russia's revolution and depicts them against a broad historical background.

There were those ( like Ruth Fischer, leader of KDP ) that claimed that Lenin and Soviet Communist leaders wanted to deflect public attention from the inner problems and crisis of the Comintern and Communist Party.

An excellent example is Joseph Stalin's claim that Vladmir Lenin had designated him to be his successor as leader of the USSR.

The April Theses ( Russian:, transliteration: ) were a series of directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Petrograd ( Saint Petersburg ), Russia from his exile in Switzerland.

Lenin and was the top leader of the tiny Yedinstvo group, which published a newspaper by the same name.

He was the leader of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, and had an influence on Vladimir Lenin, Emma Goldman, and Serbian political writer and socialist Svetozar Marković.

Lenin, leader of the new communist government of Russia, saw Poland as the bridge over which communism would pass into the labor class of a disorganized postwar Germany.

The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov, were by 1905 a mass organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism, who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia.

Soon, however, the terminology changed to " Bolsheviks " and " Mensheviks ", from the Russian " bolshinstvo " ( majority ) and " menshinstvo " ( minority ), based on the fact that Lenin believed that most of the party stood behind him.

The founder of Russian Marxism, Georgy Plekhanov, who was at first allied with Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, parted ways with them by 1904.

Leon Trotsky at first supported the Mensheviks, but left them in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

In Russia the Social Democrats ' plan had the backing of Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who in July 1917 were plotting a revolt against the Russian Provisional Government, which was opposed the Power Act, as it would reduce the power of the Russian administration in the country.

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.

The Allies hoped to override Lenin and the Bolsheviks, in order to get Russia back into the war against Germany.

After eight months of liberal rule, the October Revolution brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union in place of the disintegrated Russian Empire.

* 1917: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution.

In 1903 the RSDLP split into two wings: the radical Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, and the relatively moderate Mensheviks, led by Lenin's former friend Yuli Martov.

The Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, advocated the formation of a small elite of professional revolutionists, subject to strong party discipline, to act as the vanguard of the proletariat in order to seize power by force.

Lenin and his supporters, the Bolsheviks, argued for a smaller but highly organized party while Martov and his supporters, the Mensheviks, argued for a larger and less disciplined party.

In a surprise development, Trotsky and most of the Iskra editors supported Martov and the Mensheviks while Plekhanov supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Trotsky left the Mensheviks in September 1904 over their insistence on an alliance with Russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

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.

As epitomised in the slogan “ Freedom in Discussion, Unity in Action ”, Lenin followed the example of the First International ( IWA, International Workingmen ’ s Association, 1864 – 1876 ), and organised the Bolsheviks as a democratically centralised vanguard party, wherein free political-speech was recognised legitimate until policy consensus ; afterwards, every member of the Party would be expected to uphold the official policy established in consensus.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

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.

The Bolsheviks under the leadership of V. I. Lenin had long espoused the right of the national peoples to self-determination as a part of the anti-imperialist struggle endorsed by the Bolsheviks.