Vladimir Lenin Quotes
How can you make a revolution without executions?
Vladimir Lenin
Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Question on hearing that the Soviet had abolished the death penalty, October 1917
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Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
The attempted putsch failed. Hitler was arrested and jailed 4 days later.
Francisco Ascaso, Buenaventura Durruti, Juan Garcia Oliver, Aurelio Fernandez, Ricardo Sanz, Gregorio Jover, Antonio Ortiz and Antonio Martinez Valencia
This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. This is the intellectual origin of the concept of the single party revolutionary state.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.