On January 21, 1924 Vladimir Il’ich Lenin, the architect of the October Revolution and the “leader of the world’s proletariat,” died, having succumbed to complications from the three strokes that …

At the first sitting, which was devoted to the memory of Lenin, Stalin delivered a speech in which, in the name of the Bolshevik Party, he took a solemn vow to hold sacred and fulfill the behests …

The struggle to succeed Lenin which commenced even before his death in January 1924 rocked the Communist Party to its foundations and had immense consequences to its — and the …

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In the chaos, many were crushed to death. Even as Stalin lay dying, the party’s Presidium, an enlarged body that had replaced the Politbiuro at the Nineteenth Congress in October 1952, …

Politburo composition, 1917-1949. Leadership of the Communist Party Politburo of the Central Committee 10 [23] Oct 1917 Bubnov, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Lenin, Sokolnikov, Stalin and …

On 5 March 1953 an event took place that shattered Russia — the death of Stalin. I found it almost impossible to imagine him dead, so much had he been an indispensable part of life.

Continuing Lenin’s immortal cause, Comrade STALIN led the Soviet people to the world-historic triumph of socialism in our land. Comrade Stalin led our country to victory over fascism in the …

Conspiracy was bred in the bone. After the death of Lenin in 1924, a struggle developed among the leaders for the succession. The two outstanding contenders were Trotsky and Stalin.

Lenin on Proletarian Culture Vladimir Lenin, On Proletarian Culture. October 8, 1920 We see from Izvestiia of October 8 that, in his address to the Proletkult Congress, Comrade Lunacharskii …