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    On Monday, 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died...
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    thinking, "No, my brother won't make a revolutionary, I thought at the time. A revolutionary can't give so much time to the study of worms." Lenin also remembered...
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    Leninism (Russian: Ленинизм, Leninizm) is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment...
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  • All My Lenins (Estonian: Minu Leninid) is a 1997 Estonian historical comedy film by Hardi Volmer. It was produced by the Faama Film company in cooperation...
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    Lenin's Testament is a document dictated by Vladimir Lenin in late 1922 and early 1923. In the testament, Lenin proposed changes to the structure of the...
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    1974, Jane Barnes Casey wrote a fictional memoir of her life I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin (Houghton Mifflin Company; ISBN 0-395-18501-7). UNESCO named...
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    Leon Trotsky (category Russian anti–World War I activists)
    Lenin's letter to Stalin dictated on 15 December 1922: "I am sure Trotsky will uphold my views as well as I." Faced with a united opposition by Lenin...
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    Fanny Kaplan (category Vladimir Lenin)
    statement: My name is Fanya Kaplan. Today I shot Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved...
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    The International Lenin Peace Prize (Russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira) was a Soviet Union award named...
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    library was renamed the V. I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. It is nicknamed the "Leninka". Design of the new buildings of the Lenin Library was to be decided...
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