Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, despite all the inconsistency of his personality, the real construct of communist ideas and the image of the Soviet state as a whole, was one of the most prominent leaders of the 20th century. After all, the revolution he organized radically transformed not only Russia and its neighbors, but the whole world. Even the West, which for a long time was the main one
the ideological enemy of the USSR, paradoxically, changed positively under its influence. So, for example, in 1917 a socialist revolution takes place in Russia, a year later the Social Democrats establish government in Germany. Under the threat of a revolutionary wave, already in 1919, the International Labor Organization was created in Geneva, designed to optimize the dialogue between capitalists and workers. At the same time, the world convention on the eight-hour working day was adopted. This is just one example, but there are many-the concessions made by capitalist governments and corporations to the masses under the threat of permanent revolution. The entire 19th century, especially its second half, and the first quarter of the 20th passed under the sign of the struggle for civil, human rights and social justice asEast and West, not least thanks to the ideologists of socialist ideas. When Lenin died, the whole country idolized their leader for almost 70 years. And even today it is difficult to find a person who has not heard this name.
In what year did Lenin die?
However, as noted, the face of the USSR has never been and is not unambiguous today. Great achievements here were replaced by terrifying catastrophes. This also applies to the first stage of the existence of the Union. War communism made it possible for the Bolsheviks to win the civil war by mobilizing all their forces for it. However, the same policy turned against the new government and the masses, especially its most numerous layer then - the peasantry. The New Economic Policy was called upon to restore the country destroyed in battles - a significant weakening of state control in the direction of a market economy. Lenin became one of the key figures in this decision in the spring of 1921. However, it was one of the last significant initiatives of the Soviet leader. He became seriously ill a year later. Lenin died in January 1924. However, he spent the last 1.5 years of his life in a quiet estate near Moscow. The causes of the leader's illness were not fully elucidated either by contemporary doctors or by later studies. It was believed that severe congestion and many years of nervous tension led to the disease. When Lenin died, this news was announced on the same day at the Congress of Soviets on January 21, 1924, and after that throughout the country. Funeral ceremonies have taken on a colossal scale. BySome researchers estimate that only on January 23-26 the number of pilgrims to the tomb of the state leader exceeded half a million people. And on January 27, the coffin with the body was finally placed in the mausoleum on Red Square. However, later there were a lot of rumors about when Lenin died: supposedly it happened earlier and was hidden for some time (after all, for 1.5 years he almost didn’t
was in public), and some did not want to believe that he had died at all, spreading the rumor about the departure of the leader from the country.
Roaring twenties of the CPSU(b)
When Lenin died, a serious struggle for power began in the party between its remaining leaders. And I must say that he had a lot of talented potential successors. Even before the death of the leader, the persecution of Leon Trotsky began, who was accused in January 1924. Already in 1925, Zinoviev and Kamenev fell into disgrace, and a little later, Bukharin. The purge, which began with the soft removal of Bolsheviks dangerous to Stalin from power, led to colossal casu alties in the 1930s.
