On Culture and Cultural Revolution

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Wildside Press LLC, Mar 1, 2008 - Political Science - 300 pages
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.
 

Contents

From THE HERITAGE WE RENOUNCE
7
From NOTES OF A PUBLICIST
23
From YET ANOTHER ANTIDEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
29
From CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE NATIONAL QUESTION
42
From REPORT ON THE REVIEW OF THE PROGRAMME
52
From REPORT ON THE FOREIGN AND HOME POLICY
61
SPEECH OF GREETING AT THE FIRST ALLRUSSIA CON
79
From SPEECH AT THE THIRD ALLRUSSIA CONFERENCE
117
From THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE TASKS
179
TO N I BUKHARIN September 27 1922
198
From ON COOPERATION
206
OUR REVOLUTION Apropos of N Sukhanovs Notes
211
From BETTER FEWER BUT BETTER
217
N K KRUPSKAYA ILYICHS FAVOURITE BOOKS
223
CLARA ZETKIN MY RECOLLECTIONS OF LENIN
231
A U LUNACHARSKY LENIN AND THE ARTS
241

THE TASKS OF THE YOUTH LEAGUES Speech Delivered
123
ON PROLETARIAN CULTURE
147
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
166
Notes
262
Name Index
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About the author (2008)

Creator of the former Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (family name Ulianov) was born on April 10, 1870 in Simbirsk (later Ulianovsk), Russia, the son of a schools inspector. Lenin received upper class education and obtained a law degree in 1891, but he was moved to oppose the czarist Russian government, partly due to the execution of his brother, Alexander, who had participated in a plot to assassinate the Russian emperor. For taking part in revolutionary activities, Lenin was eventually imprisoned, publishing his work, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, from prison in 1899. Three years later, his pamphlet "What Is to Be Done" became the model for Communist philosophy. Lenin helped the Bolshevist movement that overthrew the czarist government and brought an end to Russia's war against Germany. As head of the new government, he put land in the hands of the peasants and brought industry under government control. An assassination attempt in 1918 wounded him, and two strokes in 1922 forced him to severely curtail government duty. He retreated to his country home in Gorki, where he died on January 21, 1924.

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