Lenin

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HIstorical Conflict and Change
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Introduction 2
Background: The 1905 Revolution and the Era of the Dumas (1906–14) 3
1. The Revolutions of February and October 1917 4
2. Lenin’s Russia 1917–1924 13
3. Stalin’s Rise to Power and Dictatorship 1924–1941 21
4. The Economy 1924–1941

This is the extraordinary story of how Lenin, a stranger to Russia for almost two decades, took sole power of the world's largest country in just a few fateful months.

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In Our Time: Lenin
Melvyn Bragg investigates what drove the Soviet leader Lenin, and enabled him to develop a model to export communism and build an original political system that remained intact for over seventy years.

Lenin (ProQuest article)
Full biography
Lenin played the decisive role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 that brought about the first government dedicated to overturning the political and economic system of Western capitalism.
Lenin: featured essays and lectures
Lenin on the most Important of the arts
The possibilities of cinema as a propaganda, agitation and educational tool in a country of widespread illiteracy intrigued the Soviet leaders.
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Their fascination with new technology in general probably contributed as well. Lenin dictated this note to the Commissariat of Education, which was responsible for the cinema, with a request that it draw up a program of action based on his directives
Lenin: British Library
HIs life and his role in the Russian Revolution.
Lenin and the October Coup
Lenin called for an armed insurrection. Writing from Finland, where he had fled to avoid arrest following the failed uprising in July he told the Bolshevik leaders that they 'can and must take state power into their own hands.'

VCE History - Revolutions: Russia 1896 - 26 October 1917: Lenin

We'll ask the man, where do you stand on the question of the revolution? Are you for it or against it? If he's against it, we'll stand him up against a wall.
V.I. Lenin

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Lenin

VCE History - Revolutions: Russia 1896 - 26 October 1917: Lenin

We'll ask the man, where do you stand on the question of the revolution? Are you for it or against it? If he's against it, we'll stand him up against a wall. V.I. Lenin

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Lenin

We'll ask the man, where do you stand on the question of the revolution? Are you for it or against it? If he's against it, we'll stand him up against a wall.
V.I. Lenin