Ideologies / Leninist-Marxist / Vladimir Lenin
§ The minds · 1870–1924 · Russia · Revolutionary & head of state
Vladimir Lenin
The vanguard party
Revolution led by a disciplined revolutionary elite.
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The architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, whose theory of a disciplined vanguard party and one-party state defined twentieth-century communism.
social
Militantly modernist — atheist, anti-traditional, early on women's emancipation and literacy.
economic
Abolished private ownership of the means of production; state command of the economy.
governance
Built the one-party state and 'dictatorship of the proletariat' enforced by a vanguard.
Notable for
- Led the October Revolution, 1917
- Founded the Soviet state
- 'What Is to Be Done?' and vanguard theory
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