He did not question old Marxist scripture, he merely commented, and the comments have become a new scripture. 1898 . To do so, he believed that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" was necessary to suppress the bourgeoisie and develop a socialist economy.Before 1914, Lenin's views were largely in accordance with mainstream European Marxist orthodoxy.He declared that "Soviet government is many millions of times more democratic than the most democratic-bourgeois republic", the latter of which was simply "a democracy for the rich".Prior to taking power in 1917, he was concerned that ethnic and national minorities would make the Soviet state ungovernable with their calls for independence; according to the historian Lenin saw himself as a man of destiny, and firmly believed in the righteousness of his cause and his own ability as a revolutionary leader.Service stated that Lenin could be "moody and volatile",Aside from Russian, Lenin spoke and read French, German, and English.Despite his revolutionary politics, Lenin disliked revolutionary experimentation in literature and the arts, for instance expressing his dislike of Volkogonov claimed that "there can scarcely have been another man in history who managed so profoundly to change so large a society on such a scale".In the Western world, biographers began writing about Lenin soon after his death; some—like Various historians and biographers have characterised Lenin's administration as Conversely, various Marxist observers—including Western historians Hill and In the Soviet Union, a cult of personality devoted to Lenin began to develop during his lifetime, but was only fully established after his death.Various biographers have stated that Lenin's writings were treated in a manner akin to In Russia in 2012, a proposal from a deputy belonging to the After Lenin's death, Stalin's administration established an ideology known as "Lenin" and "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" redirect here. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. When the Israeli ambassador From 1946 until his death, Stalin only gave three public speeches, two of which lasted only a few minutes.On 1 March 1953, Stalin's staff found him semi-conscious on the bedroom floor of his Stalin left no anointed successor nor a framework within which a transfer of power could take place.Stalin claimed to have embraced Marxism at the age of fifteen,As a Marxist and an extreme anti-capitalist, Stalin believed in an inevitable "Stalin viewed nations as contingent entities which were formed by capitalism and could merge into others.In adulthood, Stalin measured 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall.During his youth, Stalin cultivated a scruffy appearance in rejection of middle-class aesthetic values.Trotsky and several other Soviet figures promoted the idea that Stalin was a mediocrity.Stalin could play different roles to different audiences,According to Montefiore, in his early life Stalin "rarely seems to have been without a girlfriend".After Nadezdha's death, Stalin became increasingly close to his sister-in-law Zhenya Alliluyeva;Stalin strengthened and stabilised the Soviet Union;McDermott nevertheless cautioned against "over-simplistic stereotypes"—promoted in the fiction of writers like A vast literature devoted to Stalin has been produced.Leninists remain divided in their views on Stalin; some view him as Lenin's authentic successor, while others believe he betrayed Lenin's ideas by deviating from them.With a high number of excess deaths occurring under his rule, Stalin has been labeled "one of the most notorious figures in history".Official records reveal 799,455 documented executions in the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1953; 681,692 of these were carried out between 1937 and 1938, the years of the Great Purge.Historians continue to debate whether or not the 1932–33 Ukrainian famine—known in Ukraine as the Shortly after his death, the Soviet Union went through a period of Khrushchev's de-Stalinisation process in Soviet society ended when he was replaced as leader by Amid the social and economic turmoil of the post-Soviet period, many Russians viewed Stalin as having overseen an era of order, predictability, and pride.The only part of the former Soviet Union where admiration for Stalin has remained consistently widespread is Joseph Stalin in an authorised image taken in 1937 and used for state publicity purposesThe existing government of landlords and capitalists must be replaced by a new government, a government of workers and peasants.Stalin is too crude, and this defect which is entirely acceptable in our milieu and in relationships among us as communists, becomes unacceptable in the position of General Secretary.