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Bolshevist leader deadThe News - 23 January 1924 Adelaide; News Limited Newspaper, 590 x 420 mm Location : State Library of South Australia - view catalogue entry This item is reproduced courtesy of Advertiser Newspapers Ltd. It may be printed or saved for personal research or study. Use for any other purpose requires written permission from Advertiser Newspapers Ltd and the State Library of South Australia. Further information may be found at the State Library's Permission to publish page. |
Vladimir Iliych Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party and head of the Soviet Union, died of a massive stroke aged 53 on 21 January 1924. His body was embalmed and put on display in a mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square where it may still be viewed.
Lenin had led the Bolsheviks to power in the October Revolution of 1917. A three-year period of civil war ensued with the Communists eventually securing power. In 1922 the Soviet State (USSR) was established with Lenin at its head.
Lenin’s death caused a bitter struggle for power and the Soviet leadership. He was eventually succeeded by Joseph Stalin. During Stalin’s brutal 29-year rule of the USSR, more Soviets were killed than in World War II.
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Further reading
- Lenin, Vladimir Iliych. The Unknown Lenin: from the secret archive/ edited by Richard Pipes. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1996.
- Lenin – through Australian eyes: an Australian contribution to the Lenin centenary year. Sydney: Communist Party of Australia, 1970.
- Pipes, Richard. Russia under the Bolshevik regime. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
- Tumarkin, Nina. Lenin lives!: the Lenin cult in Soviet Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.
- Volkogonov, D.A. Lenin: a new biography. New York: Free Press, c1994.
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