Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Lenin

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Communism

Author

Vladimir Lenin

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Russian

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Marxist revolutionary Marxist Revolutionary Politician

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Lenin, Vladimir. "Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks." The Moscow Gubernia Conference Of The R.C.P.(B.). 21 Nov. 1920, Moscow, Russia. Speech.

Current Citation

Lenin, Vladimir. Quoted in Communism, written by Mark Sandle. Routledge, 2014.

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The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

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Adolf Hitler
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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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Margaret Sanger
Source
Woman and the New Race
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

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In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Author

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Source
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Medium
Novel
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Folk wisdom
Language
Russian
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

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Purpose of art

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Leo Tolstoy
Source
What Is Art?
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Essay
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.