While the office was initially not highly regarded, Stalin used it to consolidate more power after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, gradually putting down all opposition.

While some claim that Hồ Chí Minh Thought is used as a veil for the Party leadership since they, according to this version, have stopped believing in communism, contrary to this version, Hồ Chí Minh was an avid supporter of Vladimir Lenin and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

While the area attracted people who came to live and work in the creative, bohemian environment, it also became home for political exiles such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, and Simon Petlyura.

While the Silver Age is considered to be the development of the 19th century Russian literature tradition, some avant-garde poets tried to overturn it: Velimir Khlebnikov, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

While in Russian sources the islands are mentioned for the first time in 1646, the earliest detailed information about them was provided by the explorer Vladimir Atlasov in 1697.

While the term generally applies to dead white men with conservative views, it has been used ironically to poke fun at " dead white men " on the political left, such as Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

While the references to Russia, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Lenin were replaced ; the overall theme of " friendship of peoples " and the original music composed by Sakalouski were preserved.

While President Boris Yeltsin frequently used his power of pardon, his successor Vladimir Putin was much more hesitant ; in the final years of his presidency he did not grant pardons at all.

While there, Kraven brutally kills Sasha ( who complained that Kraven would have to hunt them to prove their place in the Kravinoff family ) and euthanizes Vladimir.

While Thom was an eminent mathematician, the subsequent fashionable nature of elementary catastrophe theory as propagated by Christopher Zeeman caused a reaction, in particular on the part of Vladimir Arnold.

While it may have been just within bounds in the United States, in 1963 it was still one of 188 books prohibited from import into Australia, along with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and no fewer than seven books by Henry Miller.

While at the plate, Vladimir Guerrero lost his bat while swinging, and it flew towards Lasorda, causing him to fall backwards, but Tommy was unharmed.

" While many sources make reference to military research into infrasonic weapons beginning with the work of Dr. Vladimir Gavreau, it is unclear as to whether or not these devices have potential use in conflict.

While there, he became interested in Marxism, attended Marxist and narodniki ( populist ) meetings ( where he met his future opponent Vladimir Lenin ) and wrote articles for legally published magazines — hence the term Legal Marxism, whose chief proponent he became.

While living in New York, at the age of 12, the young Vladimir (" Vova ") had a boyhood crush on a certain Mary, a " stunning " Irish-American woman more than 20 years his senior with a " mane of copper hair " who took him to the movies and served him cocktails at her home.

While preparing to co-star as Vladimir to John Alderton's Estragon in Michael Rudman's acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot at the National Theatre in November 1987, McCowen also spent a busy autumn staging Martin Crimp's trilogy of short plays Definitely the Bahamas at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, having previously enjoyed Crimp's style of writing in a BBC radio version of Three Attempted Acts.

While Donovan and Police Chief Baker ( Robert Griffin ) review photographs of the victim and await an autopsy, Pepi ( Vladimir Sokoloff ), the police station's janitor, persuades officer Chris Stanley ( Guy Williams ) to let him see the photos.

While in confinement, he worked at NKVD's Central Design Bureau No. 29 ( ЦКБ-29 НКВД ) in Moscow under the guidance of Vladimir Petlyakov, designing the Pe-2 bomber.

While not antagonistic to the Kremlin, the party was seen as likely to support President Dmitry Medvedev rather than Prime Minister Vladimir Putin if the latter entered the 2012 presidential race.

While he was as gifted in public relations as his father had been in engineering, Vladimir proved as extravagant as his mother in spending.

The Raid, Autumn 1408: While the Grand Prince is away in Lithuania, the Grand Prince ’ s brother and a group of Tatars raid Vladimir.

While he vehemently opposed what he believed to be President Vladimir Putin's policies of rolling back democracy and civic freedoms in Russia, he had to collaborate with the powerful co-chairman of the Union of Rightist Forces, Anatoly Chubais, who favoured a more conciliatory line towards the Kremlin.

While Ivan the Terrible had no children, Vladimir was regarded by boyars as his only heir.

While extensive, it by no means includes all of the House of Romanov or all Romanov descendants ; Maria Vladimirovna has never joined and neither did her late father Vladimir Cyrillovich.

While population at Fort Garry increased rapidly, from 2,417 in 1831 to 4,369 in 1840, economic opportunities did not increase at a similar rate.

While shooting the scene where Vivian is lying down on the floor of Edward's penthouse, watching re-runs of I Love Lucy, in order to achieve a genuine laughter, Garry Marshall had to tickle Roberts's feet ( out of camera range ) to get her to laugh so hysterically, which is featured in the film.

While the invasive plant disease commonly called Sudden Oak Death attacks other Pacific Coast native oaks, it has not yet been found on the Garry oak.

While the independent release did well on that level selling some 50, 000 copies, and the band gigged around California, St. John and his band White Tiger joined up with Garry Lane owner of Logic Productions who promoted many top bands in LA.

While the CPR quite rightly receives credit for many of the early hotels of this genre such as The Banff Springs Hotel, The Empress ( hotel ) in Victoria, The Royal York in Toronto, Hotel Vancouver, Quebec City's Chateau Frontenac and Chateau Lake Louise in The Rockies, it was the GTPR that built Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, The Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, and The Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton.

While the books were being balanced, steady progress was made on it, the Reds pulling off a major coup with the signing of Australian full-back Garry Jack in 1988.

While Garry maintained the company's prominence in the European foods market, ABF's growth has been eclipsed by the phenomenal performance of George Weston Limited in North America.

While theory indicates that Black can hold the balance in the Keres Attack, players today often prefer to avoid it by playing 5 ... a6 first, an idea popularized by Kasparov.

While some attempted to communicate in emails, the vast majority of people considered it inconceivable and flames were sent to the effect of why would Kasparov need the moves of lesser players.

While most of the words introduced to the language by the TDK were newly derived from Turkic roots, it also opted for reviving Old Turkish words which had not been used for centuries.

While Fabius communicated the valued results of military experience, he opted not to inculcate his own personal and political partialities and dislikes into the ear of his attached follower.

While Enoki Films held the rights over The Wanderers spin-off television series, Geneon opted out of using more " Americanized " names.

While the Church of Ireland community used the name ' Ardbraccan ' to refer to its parish, the nearby Roman Catholic parish in the 19th century opted to use a different name, Bohermeen, from the Irish An Bóthar Mín, meaning the smooth road, referring to a famous stretch of road that two thousand years before had passed through the neighbourhood and went to Tara, the occasional home of the High King of Ireland or Ard Rí.

While they drew heavily on the U. S. Constitution for the organisation of the federal state as a whole, they opted for the collegial rather than the presidential system for the executive branch of government.

While he was at Brentwood he opted out of the compulsory CCF ( combined cadet force ) on conscientious grounds.

While close to half of male participants in their study opted to spend a fifth year in secondary schools, only one in five females choose to do so.

While Władysław opted for a quick response against him ( the voivode was blinded and muted ), forcing Włostowic to go to Kiev, the High Duke's final decision on his confrontation with the voivode considerably weakened his position.

While the Vectra C has been sold in Mexico and Chile as the Chevrolet Vectra, it is not marketed in Brazil, where Chevrolet opted to sell the Astra H under the Vectra brand since October 2005, keeping the Astra G as the cheaper option.

While the quartet had written some music together, the line-up would be cut short when Fisk committed suicide by gunshot in front of his girlfriend's house in Tara Hills, San Pablo, CA, and Andrews subsequently opted not to participate in the group any longer.

While Alys opted for Pakistan citizenship, she was a vital member of Communist Party of Pakistan, played a significant role in Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case when she brought together the communist mass.

While most synthesizer players tended to play the instrument as they would a piano or organ, Ravenstine generally opted instead to make sounds that were reminiscent of spooky sound effects from 1950s science fiction films, or perhaps electronic music and musique concrète.

While the States of Holland were dithering about a decision, unrest about the quarrel began to spread around the Republic, disturbing the public peace and causing political problems in that the regents began to take sides, often in favor of the Remonstrants, whereas the common people, incited by the dominees, often opted for the Counter-Remonstrant viewpoint.

While Legace was initially going to be the 3rd goalie behind two elite goaltenders, the Red Wings opted to send Joseph to the minors while Legace served as Hašek's backup.

While arguably the most complete Cobain biography, Cross opted to include his own impression of what Cobain's final days were like.

While the American Transformers series was concluded with the three-part miniseries, " The Rebirth " ( set in 2007 ), in Japan it was opted to continue the series, and so " The Rebirth " was disregarded in favour of producing Transformers: Headmasters, a full-length 35-episode series set in the year 2011.

While he was up for reelection to the Senate in 1970, he instead initially opted to run for Ohio State Treasurer.

While the American adaptation garnered critical acclaim, the USA Network deemed it commercially unsuccessful and opted not to renew the series.

While many of the manufacturers began to expand class model lines, Honda opted to replace the basic Gold Wing Interstate with a basic Valkyrie with six carburetors and boosted engine performance.

While it was believed that Carpenter, himself, opted out because he wanted no active part in the sequel this is not the case.

While the CNT opted for a radical confrontation with the regime, and were prohibited on this account, the UGT, although in disagreement with the dictatorship, adopted a collaborative attitude in order to continue to operate legally.

While each Mark generally opted for a " balanced " approach to offensive and defensive capabilities, there were often specialised variations on the base model, such as heavy siege units, scout units and ECM platforms.

While her younger brother was a Zionist and remained religious, she opted for Socialism, joining the Romanian Social Democratic Party in 1915 and then its successor, the Socialist Party of Romania, in 1916.

While the 2, 800 man garrison there withstood an initial assault from Tipu's force on September 13, Captain John Floyd, the garrison commander, opted to withdraw.