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Statue of Lenin. / 47.6514°N 122.3510°W / 47.6514; -122.3510. The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian -born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the ...
This is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin.Some or all of the locations in former Soviet republics and satellites were renamed (frequently reverting to pre-Soviet names) after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the names of the thousands of streets, avenues, squares ...
Leninsky Avenue ( Russian: Ле́нинский проспе́кт "Leninsky prospekt") is a major avenue in Moscow, Russia, that runs in the south-western direction between Kaluzhskaya Square in the central part of the city through Gagarin Square to the Moscow Ring Road. It is a part of the M3 highway which continues from Moscow to Kaluga and ...
Dissident Gardens is Jonathan Lethem's ninth novel. It is a multigenerational saga of revolutionaries and activists, the civil rights movement and the counterculture, from the 1930s Communists to the 2010s Occupy movement, and is mostly set in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens and Greenwich Village.
Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers (Japanese: Lv2からチートだった元勇者候補のまったり異世界ライフ, Hepburn: Lv2 kara Chīto datta Moto Yūsha Kōho no Mattari Isekai Raifu) is a Japanese light novel series written by Miya Kinojo and illustrated by Katagiri.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) was born on 22 April 1870 ( O.S. 10 April), better known by his alias Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian Marxist, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 ...
—Lenin, 1905 In January 1905, the massacre of protesters that came to be known as Bloody Sunday took place in St. Petersburg, sparking the civil unrest known as the Revolution of 1905. In response to these events, Lenin urged Bolsheviks in the Empire to take a greater role in the unrest, encouraging violent insurrection against the Tsarist establishment, including police and the Black ...
The early life of Joseph Stalin covers the period from Stalin's birth, on 18 December 1878 (6 December according to the Old Style ), until the October Revolution on 7 November 1917 (25 October). Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia, to a cobbler and a house cleaner, he grew up in the city and attended school there before ...