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Lenin was history’s first Marxist
and working class leader to head the popular movement that put into
practice the scientific theories of Communism. He was the first
to direct a victorious proletarian revolution, and the first leader
of a Socialist state.
More than half a century has passed
since Lenin died. But even today as the famous Soviet poet Vladimir
Mayakovsky says,
"Lenin
is how
the must live of all living.
Our weapon,
Our knowledge,
Our power."
If the Bolshevik Revolution is –
as some people have termed it – the most significant political
event of the 20th century, then Lenin surely must be
regarded as the century’s most significant political leader.
Even among non-Communist scholars, he has been regarded as one of
the greatest revolutionary leaders and statesmen in history, as
well as the greatest Socialist thinker since Marx.
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