“To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong”

—  Vladimir Lenin

Collected Works, Vol. 22, pp. 305–319.
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Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

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