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Helped create the Bolshevik party. Led the Soviets to power in the Russian Revolution. Elected to the head of the Soviet government until 1922, when he retired due to ill health. Created the Communist International. Created the theory of Imperialism, emphasised the importance of the political party as vanguard in the revolution.

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Title Author Published Type Summary
What is to be done? Vladimir Lenin Book
A letter to American workingmen
The proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky Vladimir Lenin Pamphlet
Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism Vladimir Lenin Book
The defeat of one’s own government in the imperialist war
The historical destiny of the doctrine of Karl Marx
Opportunism, and the collapse of the Second International
The collapse of the Second International
Marxism and Reformism Vladimir Lenin Article
"Left-wing" communism, an infantile disorder
Karl Marx: A brief biographical sketch with an exposition of Marxism
Letter To The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.)
Concerning the state budget Vladimir Lenin 1902-01-15 Article
To the Rural Poor Vladimir Lenin 1903 Pamphlet
Two tactics of social-democracy in the democratic revolution Vladimir Lenin 1905 Pamphlet
Backward Europe and Advanced Asia Vladimir Lenin 1913 Magazine Article
The state and revolution Vladimir Lenin 1918
The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government Vladimir Lenin 1918
The three sources and three component parts of Marxism V.I. Lenin 1977 Book
Materialism and empirio-criticism V.I. Lenin May 1909 Book
The tax in kind Vladimir Lenin May 1921 Pamphlet
Freedom to Criticise and Unity of Action Vladimir Lenin May 20, 1906
Role and functions of the trade unions under the New Economic Policy Vladimir Lenin Pravda no. 12, January 17, 1922[1] Newspaper article
The impending catastrophe and how to combat it Vladimir Lenin September 28, 1917 Pamphlet


  1. The role and tasks of the trade unions under the conditions created by the New Economic Policy were examined at a Plenary Meeting of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) on December 28, 1921. The draft of the decision on the trade unions adopted by the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) was written by Lenin.
    The theses of January 12, 1922 were examined by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee which unanimously approved them and submitted them without amendments to the Eleventh Party Congress. They were unanimously passed at that Congress (see KPSS v rezolyutsiakh i resheniyakh syezdov, konferentsi i plenumov Ts.K. [C.P.S.U. in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences and C.C. Plenary Meetings ], Part 1, 1954, pp. 603-12)