Lenin: The Leader, the Reality, the People

Luis Toledo Sande Work by Mario Sandoval, courtesy of José Martí National Library. Photo: Granma On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birth, Granma features an essay about the Russian revolutionary’s ideas in Cuba The arrival of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s ideas to Cuba has a history, inseparable from socialist ideals and the…

A New Era in World History

Vladimir Ilich Lenin Work by Miguel Ángel Nin, courtesy of José Martí National Library On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Granma shares several quotes from the Russian revolutionary’s seminal works:  We have created a Soviet type of state and by that we have ushered in a…

Lenin, 150 Years After His Birth

Atilio Borón Vladimir Illich Ulyanov was born in 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), the undisputed leader of the first triumphant worker-peasant insurrection on a national scale in the history of humanity: the October Revolution in Russia (which brought to an end that which the heroic Paris…

The Russian Revolution Changed the World Forever

Stephen Millies Vladimir Lenin giving a speech to the Red Army in Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920. On the right of the platform is Leon Trotsky, commander of the Red Army. One-hundred-and-two years ago on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. Two million soldiers in the Russian army…

Guevara in the Reflections of Anastás Mikoyán

Ernesto Che Guevera with Anastás Mikoyán, first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Excerpt from the book “Anatomy of the Caribbean Crisis” by Sergo Mikoyán, Chapter XIV, “Che Guevara”. Fragments of an interview with journalist I.R. Grigulievich granted by Anastás Mikoyán, a few months before his death. You were able to meet…

How “The State and Revolution” Changed History

Brian Becker A barricade during The Paris Commune, 1871. Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism and revolution while on the run, living underground and hiding from…