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The 113 pages that link to Vladimir Lenin, each with the reason it gives.

• Bolshevik RevolutionRelated: He pressed the party to take power and became the new government’s leading figure.

• ChekaRelated: Lenin backed the commission as a means of defending Bolshevik rule.

• Clara ZetkinRelated: Zetkin discussed women’s emancipation and communist organizing with Lenin after the Russian Revolution.

• Dmitry MerezhkovskyCompared with: Merezhkovsky denounced Lenin as a destructive force in Russian history.

• Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionRelated: Lenin led the party when it established the Politburo in 1919.

• Russian autocracyBroader topic: His government replaced monarchy with a centralized one-party state.

• Soviet democracyRelated: Lenin argued for transferring state power to the soviets under Bolshevik leadership.

• State atheismRelated: Lenin’s government established the Soviet policies that became a major model for state atheism.

• VanguardismRelated: Lenin developed the influential account of party leadership underlying vanguardism.

• AgitpropRelated: Lenin argued that political agitation and propaganda should serve revolutionary organization.

• Nadezhda KrupskayaRelated: Her husband and closest political collaborator, Lenin shared her revolutionary work across decades.

• Nikolay ChernyshevskyRelated: Lenin admired Chernyshevsky and borrowed his novel’s title for a political pamphlet.

• Siberian exileRelated: His Siberian exile illustrates that the punishment also targeted revolutionaries before Soviet rule.

• Alexander KolchakCompared with: Lenin’s government was the political and military adversary Kolchak sought to overthrow.

• IskraRelated: He helped establish Iskra and shaped its argument for a disciplined revolutionary party.

• Julius MartovCompared with: Martov’s longtime comrade became his chief rival over party organization and political strategy.

• Karl KautskyCompared with: Lenin attacked Kautsky’s democratic socialism after their break over the Russian Revolution.

• Russian famine of 1921–1922Related: Lenin’s government negotiated with foreign relief organizations and directed domestic responses to famine.

• Russian national identityRelated: His multinational state project recast Russian nationhood within a Soviet political framework.

• Soviet nationalities policyRelated: Lenin defended national self-determination while seeking a unified socialist state.

• Grigory ZinovievRelated: Zinoviev worked closely with Lenin, despite opposing the timing of the October insurrection.

• Permanent revolutionRelated: Lenin’s changing positions on revolutionary power converged with aspects of Trotsky’s strategy in 1917.

• Russian intelligentsiaRelated: His party’s rise transformed the political role of educated radicals.

• Soviet anti-religious campaignRelated: Lenin's government initiated policies that subordinated religious institutions to the new state.

• Anastas MikoyanRelated: Mikoyan entered Bolshevik politics during Lenin’s rise and served in his government.

• Communist partyRelated: His organizational model influenced many communist parties and states.

• Lenin's MausoleumRelated: His death prompted the decision to preserve and display his body.

• Alexandra KollontaiRelated: Kollontai worked within Lenin’s party but challenged its leadership over workers’ control.

• Béla KunRelated: Lenin corresponded with Kun and urged him to weigh revolutionary policy against Hungary’s military situation.

• Georgi PlekhanovCompared with: Their early intellectual alliance gave way to conflict over party strategy and the 1917 revolutions.

• Man at the CrossroadsBroader topic: Rivera included Lenin among workers, provoking the commission’s central conflict.

• Alexei RykovRelated: Lenin appointed Rykov to senior roles, including head of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

• Anton PannekoekCompared with: Pannekoek’s critique of Leninism opposed the centralized party model Lenin defended.

• Boris SavinkovCompared with: Lenin’s Bolshevik government became the principal target of Savinkov’s later armed opposition.

• 20th centuryRelated: His party's seizure of power founded a state that became a global ideological rival.

• History of RussiaRelated: His party seized power and established the institutions that preceded the Soviet Union.

• Lev KamenevRelated: Kamenev worked closely with Lenin but opposed the October insurrection before joining the new Soviet leadership.

• Nikolai OstrovskyRelated: Lenin’s revolutionary legacy supplies the political ideal celebrated in Ostrovsky’s work.

• Patriarch Tikhon of MoscowCompared with: Lenin’s government established the policies Tikhon condemned and sought to contain.

• Pyotr StolypinCompared with: Lenin’s revolutionary movement opposed the monarchy Stolypin sought to stabilize.

• Pyotr WrangelRelated: Lenin’s government was the political adversary Wrangel sought to overthrow.

• Anti-revisionismRelated: Lenin's theories of party and revolution became central reference points in anti-revisionist claims.

• Felix DzerzhinskyRelated: Lenin appointed Dzerzhinsky to lead the Cheka after the Bolsheviks took power.

• John Atkinson HobsonRelated: Lenin adapted Hobson’s account of imperialism while embedding it in a Marxist theory of capitalism.

• Louise BryantRelated: Bryant interviewed Lenin during her reporting in Russia.

• Mirsaid Sultan-GalievRelated: Lenin's debates over nationalities and colonial revolution framed the limits of Sultan-Galiev's proposals.

• Russian State LibraryRelated: The library was renamed for Lenin during the Soviet period.

• Aftermath of World War IRelated: His government’s withdrawal from the war and revolutionary program altered postwar politics.

• Akashi MotojiroRelated: Lenin’s revolutionary movement arose from the same Russian upheavals Akashi sought to encourage.

• Alexei ShchusevRelated: Lenin’s death prompted the commission for the mausoleum most closely associated with Shchusev.