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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vladimir Lenin
Lenin is also credited with translating the Communist Manifesto into Russian in the period between being expelled from the University and obtaining his license to practice law.
Lenin was an author of several theoretical works in philosophy such as Materialism and Empiriocriticism which became fundamental in Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
Lenin had a certain admiration for the Irish socialist revolutionary James Connolly, and the Soviet Union was the first country to recognise the Irish Republic.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin   (4179 words)

  
 Left Unity
Lenin’s position was to advocate that the working class complete the revolution and that all power be transferred to the soviets.
Lenin, who you are fond of (mis)quoting, often used the expression, "an ounce of experience is worth a ton of theory." You are loud with accusations made in the abstract but when it comes to the concrete are strangely mute on the experience of Joe Higgins’ role.
In Lenin’s words they are "two sides of the same coin." The ultra-left urns ahead of the masses issuing demands which appear abstract and unreal; the opportunist tail ends the working class seeking the lowest common denominator in drawing up a programme.
www.geocities.com /socialistparty/leftunity2.htm   (14671 words)

  
 A Christian burial for Lenin? - a country debates the issue - Brief Article Christian Century - Find Articles
Lenin, who led the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and became the head of the first Soviet government, was a national hero throughout the communist period, and is still revered by Russia's communists.
Lenin's closest surviving relative, his niece Olga Ulyanova, is bitterly opposed to plans to remove his remains.
Scientists who have dedicated their lives to maintaining Lenin's body--Moscow has an institute dedicated to this task--claim that for the sake of scientific knowledge, the body should not be buried.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_22_116/ai_55670889   (937 words)

  
 zizek/repeating lenin
It is also true (as Lucio Colletti emphasized), that Lenin's distinction between the philosophical and the scientific notion of matter, according to which, since the philosophical notion of matter as reality existing independently of mind precludes any intervention of philosophy into sciences, the very notion of "dialectics in/of nature" is thoroughly undermined.
However, both Adorno and Lenin take here the wrong path: the way to assert materialism is not by way of clinging to the minimum of objective reality OUTSIDE the thought's subjective mediation, but by insisting on the absolute INHERENCE of the external obstacle which prevents thought from attaining full identity with itself.
Lenin's critique of the "Leftism as the Child Illness of the Communism" is more than actual in the last decades, in which Left often succumbed to the terrorist temptation.
lacan.com /replenin.htm   (12288 words)

  
 Suchmaschine
Born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire (now Ulyanovsk), Lenin was the son of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov (1831-1886), a Russian civil service official who worked for progressive democracy and free universal education in Russia, and his liberal wife Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835-1916).
Lenin's resolution at the tenth party congress to outlaw 'factions', was used against any view contrary to the established political line.
It has been suggested that Lenin picked the Lena as it is longer and flows in the opposite direction, but Lenin was not opposed to Plekhanov at that time in his life.
www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Vladimir_Lenin   (4635 words)

  
 Russia, Lenin
"Lenin was the sun that lit up our lives, he was the spirit that made us do great things," says Svetlana Kuznetsova, a retired Moscow schoolteacher who brings her grandchildren to visit the mausoleum at least twice a year.
As for Lenin, he was voted "Russian Man of the Century" in a nationwide survey last year, winning 14 per cent of the votes.
To take Lenin out and bury him would say to them that they have worshipped false values, that their lives were lived in vain...
www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5501-12.cfm   (1487 words)

  
 List of statues of Lenin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down.
Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
Lenins of the world - A compilation of surviving Lenin statues
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_statues_of_Lenin   (221 words)

  
 The Nonviolent Activist — July-August 2003
Tyrants and their statues are not all the same and neither are the ways in which they fall.
This time, it is Saddam’s turn.” Although Lenin statues still stand, mostly in provincial Russian cities (and the Bolshevik leader still lies in state in Red Square), most did fall in the last years of the Soviet empire.
Lenin was the father of an empire that stretched across 11 time zones and held influence over much of the world.
www.warresisters.org /nva0703-3.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Lenin Purges - Johnson's Russia List 11-6-02
Lenin's war on his intellectual foes, whom he had described in letters as "lackeys of capital," gained force on June 1, 1922, when he signed a new penal code into law.
Lenin ordered all members of the Politburo to spend two or three hours each week reading books and magazines to identify enemies.
Lenin ended his tirade to Stalin - filled with what French scholar Nicholas Werth calls "maniacal detail" - with a blunt statement: "This is all of supreme importance." For many Russians 80 years later, who still remember exile as a totalitarian tool, it still is.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6538-13.cfm   (1033 words)

  
 List of statues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Colossus of Barletta, a statue of a Byzantine emperor
The Statue of Liberty is the tallest at 46 m, atop a 47 m pedestal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_statues   (338 words)

  
 Slavoj Zizek - Slavoj Žižek - Repeating Lenin
"Lenin" stands for the compelling FREEDOM to suspend the stale existing (post)ideological coordinates, the debilitating Denkverbot in which we live — it simply means that we are allowed to think again.
The greatness of Lenin is that, although he lacked the proper conceptual apparatus to think these two levels together, he was aware of the urgency to do it — an impossible, yet necessary, task.
Consequently, to REPEAT Lenin does NOT mean a RETURN to Lenin — to repeat Lenin is to accept that "Lenin is dead," that his particular solution failed, even failed monstrously, but that there was a utopian spark in it worth saving.
www.egs.edu /faculty/zizek/zizek-repeating-lenin.html   (10858 words)

  
 The Lenin Statue on 43 Places
I feel as if this statue has no right nor place to be in the United States- if certain Americans are too ignorant to learn and know the horrors of the communist regime (past and former)than they must do some research and learn of the atrocities.
Still, some local media observers have suggested our Lenin is cloaked in “ambiguity” and the statue deserves a pass because he inspired solidarity among our Wobblies in their heyday, or because a democracy-promoting fragment of the Berlin Wall has been considered for installation nearby.
From wikipedia: “Lenin had always been an advocate of “mass terror against enemies of the revolution” and was open about his view that the proletarian state was a system of organized violence against the capitalist establishment.
www.43places.com /places/view/441233   (1600 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Biography - Vladimir Lenin: Video: A & E Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The irony of this is, of course, the fact that Lenin's revolution was not Marxist at all in the true sense of the term.
Lenin seized total control, eliminating enemies, destroying vehicles of dissent, and setting the stage for the future abuses of Stalin and his successors.
Lenin unleashed the Communist menace upon the entire world, and it is important that we fully demythologize the history of such a dangerous man.
www.amazon.com /Biography-Vladimir-Lenin-E/dp/B000006QK3   (1073 words)

  
 Russia Weighs What to Do With Lenin's Body - New York Times
Lenin, who led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, died in 1924 at the age of 53.
His once ubiquitous statues may have mostly been torn down in Eastern Europe, but they scowl at passers-by from the Russian Pacific to the Baltic, and it is not hard to find him on pedestals, murals or plaques in nations that have made great show of shaking free from Moscow's reach, including Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.
"Lenin," mused Natasha Zakharova, 23, as she walked off Red Square on Tuesday, admitting that she was not quite sure whose body she had just seen.
www.nytimes.com /2005/10/05/international/europe/05lenin.html?ei=5090&en=a5a9ac39d0c475a2&ex=1286164800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all   (1299 words)

  
 Moscow highlights
They did demolish some architectural treasures in Moscow and certainly set up a large number of statues of Lenin, Stalin and their ilk, however most of the buildings erected during tsarist times survived and can still be seen today.
Lenin's body still lies in the tomb where it was placed when he died.
This statue was originally in the middle of Red Square, but the communist government moved it here in 1936 because it was impeding parades.
www.richard-seaman.com /Travel/Russia/Moscow/Highlights/index.html   (3139 words)

  
 St. Petersburg in Painting - Olga's Gallery
In Peter's time all trees and bushes were trimmed in the most elaborate way in accordance with the fashion.
The marble statues of famous Italian masters were bought for the alleys and covered galleries.
Following the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the transfer of the capital to Moscow in 1918, Petrograd lost its status in the eyes of the new governors of Russia, or the USSR.
www.abcgallery.com /list/2003june06.html   (1565 words)

  
 World History: Change Over Time Essay Prompts
Describe the reasons for the iconoclast movement during the split between Rome and Byzantium (e.g., 3D statues verses 2D mosaics) and the later Protestant reformation and their destruction of Catholic Icons.
Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual until 1973 when sodomy advocates and lesbian organizations lobbied for de-listing.
List and explain 6 – 10 US interventions into Central America in the 20th century.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/essays/cotlist.htm   (3847 words)

  
 statues
Statues may be of historical significance, or merely points of interest.
They sometimes offer an opportunity to liven up a photo of friends or relatives, if your subjects are willing to mimic or interract with the statue.
For instance, at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C., I once saw some students form their own version of the statue in front of it, making for an unusual and interesting image.
members.tripod.com /Images_On_Line/statues.htm   (70 words)

  
 The Columbus Dispatch Online: Archival Article
Our statues at City Hall and the Statehouse make the list, and he plans to add the one at Columbus State Community College, now that I've told him about it.
Columbus statues often depict the explorer holding a globe, an irresistible lure to a cartographer.
Soon, he was discovering statues in many places Columbus had never been, including Des Moines, Iowa; Hoboken, N.J.; and Malibu, Calif. Malibu Columbus was erected in 1992 at Pepperdine University to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the explorer's voyage.
libpub.dispatch.com /cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd01&DOCNUM=3865&TERMV=194:6:88549:6:   (659 words)

  
 Lenin Statues | MetaFilter
There has also been a Lenin Statue in Tjuchem, in the north of the Netherlands, since 1997.
I'm not sure why the Seattle statue is listed as controversial, unless he's a bit miffed with locals playing dress-up with old Vlad.
As someone said above, the Lenin statue in the Fremont (not Freemont) neighborhood was indeed controversial, because there were a lot of people who found it offensive for obvious reasons.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/46029   (1744 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Biography - Vladimir Lenin: Voice of Revolution: DVD: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Leninism flies in the face of pure Marxism in so far as forcing capitalism to crumble through extreme violence and revolution.
Lenin was a star student as his father ensured that his family of six children were reared on the Russian classics.
Lenin went ahead and sat for his exams despite this devastating loss, (Lenin's father had just died from a brain disease) passed and went onto university.
www.amazon.com /Biography-Vladimir-Lenin-Voice-Revolution/dp/B000AABKX6   (1559 words)

  
 SummitPost - Pik Lenin -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
Pik Lenin is the third highest peak in the former Soviet Union and is considered to be one of the easiest mountains over 7000m.
The former consisted of a head of Lenin, some small statues of Communist leaders, a triangular metal cone of the same type you can still find on the eastern summit of Elbrus.
Pik Lenin is a border mountain between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, but ascents from the Tajik side are very uncommon.
www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/150355/pik-lenin.html   (5144 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
The Lenin in question is a 60-foot statue, made of Ukrainian red granite, that once lifted an admonishing hand over East Berlin's Leninplatz.
Yet there is a strong sense of wounded pride and nostalgia for the old country, typified by the success of films such as "Good-bye Lenin." In fact, the title of that movie refers to the giant statue, which in one scene is pictured flying through the air pulled by helicopter.
But her office declares that this one is no longer a statue at all, at least not according to the city's Ordinance on Monuments.
www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110007124&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage   (664 words)

  
 Gagarin - statues
A wonderful Gagarin statue is placed outside Hotel Vostok in the charmy town of Gagarin.
This statue is located at the Avenue of Cosmonauts in Moscow near the Space Obelisk.
There are matching statues of Tereshkova, Belyayev, Leonov, and Komarov as well as larger statues of Korolev and other scientists nearby.
www.ffagency.com /gagarin   (512 words)

  
 Oneworld Multimedia :: Waiting for Lenin :: November :: 2006
In Soviet times, the village of Lernamerdz was one of the few places in Armenia that did not have a statue of Lenin.
But I meant the figure of Lenin himself who seems even less popular than his companion Stalin in the hearts of some armenians I know well.
The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any publication or organization that he may be working for now, in the past or in the future.
oneworld.blogsome.com /2006/11/07/waiting-for-lenin   (1400 words)

  
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Last time, it was the (soon to be Former) Soviet Union, and the statues were Lenin and Stalin.
The story told by Iraqi doctors and nurses, of how they treated PFC Lynch's wounds, then risked their lives to conceal her from Saddam's minions during the hunt for her, is heartwarming.
The Statue of Liberty will never be demolished by the people of America either eagerly or by choice because of everything good she stands for.
www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,Buff_042203,00.html   (1478 words)

  
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 Armenia: Waiting for Lenin | The Agonist
IWPR - In Soviet times, the village of Lernamerdz was one of the few places in Armenia that did not have a statue of Lenin.
The villagers say that they were fairly passive communists and that there were only seven communist activists amongst them.
But then, after Armenia became independent, and statues and busts of the great leader were taken down all over the country, in 1996 the people of Lernamerdz (its name means “near the mountains” in Armenian) erected a basalt bust of Lenin in the middle of the village.
agonist.org /20060601/armenia_waiting_for_lenin   (271 words)

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