Vladimir Lenin

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Lenin and Dialectics
From the Introduction to E. V. Ilyenkov's Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism, 1982.
Lenin On The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat
The Militant, Vol.61 no.3, 20 January 1997. Karl Kautsky counterposed the “dictatorial methods” of the Bolsheviks with the “democratic” approach of the petty-bourgeois Menshevik and Social Revolutionary parties. The rebuttal here excerpted is from the section of Lenin's pamphlet titled “Subservience to the bourgeoisie in the guise of ‘economic analysis.’”
Lenin Voted Russia's Man of Century
Associated Press, Tuesday 26 December 2000. Lenin Voted Russia's Man of Century. Lenin won the most support, with 14 percent of respondents calling him the most important man of the 20th century, showing that many older Russians still revere him.
A People Deprived of History Are Doomed!
Statement of the Presidium of the CC Communist Party of Russian Federation, NorthStarCompass, November 2005. The President's envoy to the Central District had publicly declared that the memorial in Red Square should be destroyed and that Lenin's body should be reburied.