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    Lenin's Testament is a document alleged to have been dictated by Vladimir Lenin in late 1922 and early 1923, during and after his suffering of multiple...
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    Stalin. Lenin wrote a pamphlet, "Lenin's Testament", urging the party to remove Stalin as General Secretary fearing his authoritarianism. When Lenin died...
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    22 January 1924. Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin Lenin's Mausoleum Lenin's Testament Fischer 1964, pp. 673–674; Shub 1966, p. 438; Rice 1990,...
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    relations of the Soviet Union Lenin Peace Prize Lenin Prize Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin Lenin's Testament Marxist–Leninist atheism National...
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    work. —Lenin's Testament, 1923 Most historians consider the document an accurate reflection of Lenin's views. Trotsky was generally viewed as Lenin's choice...
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    traditionally drawn upon Lenin's testament and his alliance with Trotsky in 1922–23 against the Soviet bureaucracy as primary evidence that Lenin sought to remove...
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    Joseph Stalin (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    towards comrades, less capricious, etc. — Lenin's Testament, 4 January 1923 In May 1922, a massive stroke left Lenin partially paralysed. Residing at his Gorki...
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    improved. Lenin's Testament, the document containing this order, was suppressed after Lenin's death. Various historians have cited Lenin's proposal to...
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    Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin: 1917–1929. Lenin, V. I. (1965) [1923–1924]. "'Last Testament' Letters to the Congress". Lenin's Collected Works. Vol...
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    use Lenin's Testament as a tool against Stalin for fear of endangering the stability of the party. Lenin died in January 1924 and in May his Testament was...
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  • condescension." He critiques Kotkin's analysis of the controversy surrounding Lenin's testament, he states, "Kotkin's interpretation, fascinating as it is, relies...
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  • Villon, 1461 Lenin's Testament, the name given to a document written by Vladimir Lenin 1922-23 Testament phonographe (Phonograph Testament), poetry book...
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  • Lenin's Testament and remarks by Nadezhda Krupskaya (former People's Commissar for Education and wife of Lenin), about Stalin's character, and Lenin's recommendation...
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    Stalin referred to the Testament as the "known letter of comrade Lenin." Pipes also points to the inclusion of the document in Lenin's Collected Works. The...
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    1956 Georgian demonstrations Criticism and opposition Stalin Epigram Lenin's Testament Ryutin Affair Anti-Stalinist left Trotskyism Kremlin Plot True Communists...
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    as Lenin's aide-de-camp in Europe. Zinoviev returned to Russia after the February Revolution of 1917 and joined with Lev Kamenev in opposing Lenin's "April...
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    established, Lenin taking the leading role. Not wanting to be dependent on Stalin, Alliluyeva transferred positions and joined Lenin's secretariat. This...
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    report to his father noting he was "[d]edicated to the cause of the Party of Lenin-Stalin", and was "interested and well versed in questions related to international...
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    have died in a crowd crush. Stalin's body was embalmed and interred in Lenin's Mausoleum until 1961, when it was moved to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis...
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  • Soviet Union (1953–1964): de-Stalinzation and the Khrushchev era Lenin's testament Neo-Stalinism The Battle of Stalingrad (film) The Fall of Berlin (film)...
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    strokes, Lenin's Testament of December 1922 named Trotsky and Stalin as the most able men in the Central Committee, but he harshly criticised them. Lenin said...
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  • nation during the Georgian Affair. Eventually made public as part of Lenin's Testament—which recommended that the party remove Stalin from his post as General...
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    After Lenin's return to Russia on 3 April 1917, Kamenev briefly resisted Lenin's anti-government April Theses but soon fell in line and supported Lenin until...
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  • leaflet Left Opposition Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks Lenin's testament Libertarian socialism New Left Red fascism Socialist democracy Tankie...
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    convicted of distributing the "Letters to the Party Congress" known as Lenin's Testament, which were critical of Joseph Stalin, and of participating in a demonstration...
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    proletarian defence and Marxist combat", Le Militant (this carried Lenin's Testament with its warnings against Stalin, and Trotsky's polemics against the...
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  • close friend of Stalin, died in an Aerowagon train derailment in 1921. Lenin initiated the following adoption by Stalin. His military service began in...
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    Commissars (see article "Lenin's First and Second Government"), with Lenin appointed as its governing chairman. Ruling by decree, Lenin’s Sovnarkom introduced...
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    1956 Georgian demonstrations Criticism and opposition Stalin Epigram Lenin's Testament Ryutin Affair Anti-Stalinist left Trotskyism Kremlin Plot True Communists...
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  • largely due to Dunayevskaya, who was deeply immersed in both Marx's and Lenin's writings. Johnson–Forest remained in the Socialist Workers Party until...
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