Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, despite all the contradictions of his personality, a real Communist ideas and constructive image of the Soviet state as a whole was one of the most prominent leaders of the XX century.After all, they organized a revolution radically transformed not only Russia and its neighbors, but also the whole world.Even the West, a former long time the main ideological opponent of the Soviet Union, paradoxically, a positive change under its influence.For example, in 1917 the socialist revolution takes place in Russia, a year later the Social Democrats in Germany, established by the Board.Under the threat of the revolutionary wave in 1919 in Geneva, created the International Labour Organization, designed to optimize the dialogue between capitalists and workers.Then it hosts the World Convention on the eight-hour day.This is just one example, but there are plenty of them - the concessions that were made by capitalist governments and corporations to the masses under the threat of permanent revolution.All the XIX century, especially its second half, and the first quarter of XX-th were marked by the struggle for civil and human rights and social justice in both the east and west, not least because of the ideologists of socialist ideas.When Lenin died, the whole country has for nearly 70 years, idolized their leader.Even today it is difficult to find anyone who has not heard of this name.
In what year Lenin died?
However, as noted, the appearance of the Soviet Union has never been and is not now unequivocal.Great achievements are replaced appalling catastrophes.As for this first phase of the existence of the Union.War Communism made it possible to defeat the Bolsheviks in the civil war, to mobilize all forces for it.However, this same policy is deployed against the new government and the masses, especially the most numerous of his coat while - the peasantry.Restore destroyed in battles country was called New Economic Policy - a significant weakening of state control in the direction of a market economy.Lenin was one of the key figures of this decision in the spring of 1921.However, it has become one of the last significant initiatives of the Soviet leader.He fell ill a year later.Lenin died in January 1924.However, the last 1.5 years of his life he spent in a quiet estate near Moscow.Causes of illness leader until the end and have not been clarified either by medical contemporaries or by later research.It was believed that the disease has led to the strongest congestion and long-term stress.When Lenin died, the news was announced on the same day at the Congress of Soviets January 21, 1924, and after the whole country.Funeral ceremonies have gained tremendous momentum.According to some researchers, only 23-26 in January the number of pilgrims to the tomb of the leader of the state has exceeded half a million.And on 27 January the coffin was finally placed in the mausoleum in Red Square.However, later there was also a lot of speculation about when Lenin died: that it happened some time earlier and concealed (he almost 1.5 years was not in public), and some did not want to believe that he died, rumors spread aboutout of the leader of the country.
Roaring Twenties of the CPSU (b)
When Lenin died, the party struck up a serious struggle for power between the remaining of its leaders.And I must say that the talented likely successors he had done.Even before the death of the leader started hounding of Leon Trotsky, who was charged in January 1924 Already in 1925 it fell into disgrace, Zinoviev and Kamenev and Bukharin later.Shoe, which began with the removal from power of the soft-threatening Stalin Bolsheviks, led to enormous sacrifices in the 1930s.
