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Lenin

noun

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). Synonyms: Nikolai Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Vladimir Lenin.

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... Koussevitzky director of the state orchestras which, in those early Soviet days, were at low musical ebb. He labored in that job for three years, from 1917 to 1920, but he was out of sympathy with the Lenin-Trotzky regime and asked permission to leave the country. It was refused because officials ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... which have actually supervened. One never dreamt of the executive power over great part of the vast dominions then under the sway of the Romanoff dynasty falling into the hands of wretches such as Peter the Painter, Trotzky and Lenin. But, even assuming a more or less stable form of reasonable republican government to replace the existing autocracy, it could not be other than obvious to all who were in any way conversant with the social conditions holding good in this enormous area, peopled as it was by illiterate and profoundly ...

— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

Words linked to "Lenin" : Bolshevist, Bolshevik