By Nikos Mottas.
It was in the dawn of January 21, 1924, 93 years ago, when the heart of the greatest revolutionary in history, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, stopped beating. Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and architect of the first socialist state in the world, was 54 years old.
The name of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is
identified with two dialectically connected issues. On the one hand,
there is his revolutionary activity and practice as the leader of the
20th century's most significant event- the 1917 Great
October Socialist Revolution. On the other hand, there is his
theoretical work which is the development of the revolutionary theory
of Marx and Engels in the era of Imperialism. That extraordinary
combination of revolutionary theory and practice makes Lenin a unique
personality in history who, 93 years after his death, remains “alive”
in the collective memory and hearts of the working class people
across the world.