Hints and tips:
...Imagine Studio 54 reconceptualised by Proust with footnotes by Marx and you get a sense of an installation that is at once discotheque, morning-after party, Communist HQ and Catholic church....
...I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist,” he quips. “What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country which we are here to defend?”...
...They embarked on a journey that would, over the course of a life, trace a distorted mirror image of the road that brought Lenin from Switzerland to Russia to start the revolution....
...Who would have thought that Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Trotsky and their pals would become so fashionable again that George Orwell’s Animal Farm could seem like contemporary fiction?...
...“The ghosts of Marx and Lenin still haunt the halls” of the party’s headquarters, he said....
...As Kershaw puts it, Lenin was “borne along by the revolutionary currents of his time”. But “the way the revolution changed Russia and Europe is unimaginable without Lenin’s leadership”....
...Lenin, in his early 20th-century London years, kept a cramped office there....
...But he read voraciously, declaring that “the first authors who sowed the seeds of doubt” in his mind about the communist system were Marx, Engels and Lenin....
...Yet the author he read most was Vladimir Lenin, and there is not a hint of criticism in his markings on Lenin’s works — or, indeed, on those of Karl Marx....
...In August 1980, Lech Walesa led a workers’ occupation of the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk that expanded into strikes across Poland....
...Maybe a contributing factor could be if a person grew up in the former Soviet Union and went to Moscow State University and attended on a V I Lenin academic scholarship.”...
...Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and George Orwell were some of the historic figures to pontificate here....
...But there were also three books in Russian: Lenin’s State and the Revolution and two translated volumes of Marx’s Capital....
...I had to check that I was reading the FT Weekend and not Karl Marx’s Das Kapital when I came upon your editorial “Why inheritance tax needs to be reformed” (July 13), which claimed that taxing transfers...
...Alferov’s elder brother, Marx, died aged 20 fighting in the second world war. Alferov was a quick student and developed a penchant for physics at high school....
...In the elegant wood panelled main hall, each of the 298 seats was assigned to a Durham pit or drift mine; behind the stage is the famous Chopwell banner, featuring Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Keir Hardie...
...In the wake of Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution and the expansion of Soviet power under Stalin, statues of Marx were erected worldwide. In Cuba, China, Vietnam and North Korea they still stand today....
...Lenin Square retains its statue in taxi-hailing mode....
...This phase leads to fortuitous or weird juxtapositions, moths beside maths, Lenin beside the Marx Brothers, biographies of Hitler beside anthologies of Jewish humour....
...A windowless office where Lenin worked in 1902 and 1903 has been preserved, including his desk and a forbidding overcoat....
...His name has been placed among the pantheon of communist thinkers, alongside Marx, Lenin, and Mao, with a reference to Xi Jinping thought added to the party constitution....
...The problem is at the basis of Marx’s analysis of crises. As Mr Sandbu says, the “socialist calculation debate” of the 20th century has mostly, and regrettably, been forgotten....
...In a 2006 interview, McDonnell said his inspirations were “the fundamental Marxist writers of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, basically”....
..., Engels, Lenin and Stalin!”...
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