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Lenin
[ len-in; Russian lye-nyin ]
noun
- V(la路di路mir) I(l路yich) [vlad, -, uh, -meer , il, -yich, vluh-, dyee, -myi, r, ee-, lyeech], Vladimir Ilyich UlyanovN. Lenin, 1870鈥1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918鈥24.
Lenin
/ 藞濒蓻苍瑟苍 /
noun
- LeninVladimir Ilyich18701924MRussianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: Marxist Vladimir Ilyich (vla藞dimir ilj藞jit蕛), original surname Ulyanov. 1870鈥1924, Russian statesman and Marxist theoretician; first premier of the Soviet Union. He formed the Bolsheviks (1903) and led them in the October Revolution (1917), which established the Soviet Government. He adopted the New Economic Policy (1921) after the Civil War had led to the virtual collapse of the Russian economy, formed the Comintern (1919), and was the originator of the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union, Marxism-Leninism. After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, many statues of Lenin were demolished
Lenin
- A Russian revolutionary leader of the early twentieth century, highly honored in the former Soviet Union as the founder of the modern Soviet state. Lenin, a founder of the Bolshevik party, contributed much to the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin held that a dedicated group of intellectuals had to spearhead the revolution. He became chief of government of the Soviet Union after the revolution and served until his death in 1924. Joseph Stalin succeeded him. Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
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Vladimir Lenin fetishized technology, insisting that industrialization and electrification would lead to the idealized future of a truly communist society.
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We met him in a cavernous exhibition building that used to house a museum to Lenin.
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