Vladimir Lenin: Difference between revisions

==Legacy==

{{Cquote2|As influential as he was in life, Lenin may have been more so in death. Over 100 million have lined up to view [[Lenin's Mausoleum|his mummified body]]. His memory has been used to support every change in Soviet policy and every new regime since his death. His theories inspired the successful revolutions of [[Fidel Castro]], [[Mao Zedong]], and [[Ho Chi Minh]]; as well as countless other revolutionaries in countries full of oppressed and powerless people.| ''Vladimir Lenin: Voice of Revolution'', [[A&E Network|A&E]] [[Biography (TV series)|Biography]], 2005 <ref name = "LeninDoc" />}}

When Lenin died on January 21, 1924, near Moscow, he was acclaimed as "the greatest genius of mankind" and "the leader and teacher of the peoples of the whole world."<ref name = "1968Encyclopedia">[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Vladimir_Ilyich_Lenin.aspx Lenin] entry from the ''[[International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences]]'', 1968</ref> Historian [[J. Arch Getty]] has remarked that "Lenin deserves a lot of credit for the notion that the meek can inherit the earth, that there can be a political movement based on [[social justice]] and [[Social equality|equality]]."<ref name = "LeninDoc" /> ''Time Magazine'' also named Lenin one of the [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century|100 most important people of the 20th century]],<ref>[http://205.188.238.181/time/time100/leaders/profile/lenin.html Time 100:Vladimir Lenin] by David Remnick, April 13, 1998.</ref> and one of their top 25 political icons of all time; remarking that "for decades, [[Marxist-Leninist]] rebellions shook the world while Lenin's embalmed corpse lay in repose in the [[Red Square]]."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2046285_2045996_2046096,00.html Top 25 Political Icons: Lenin] by Feifei Sun, ''[[Time Magazine]]'', February 4, 2011</ref> Following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, reverence for Lenin declined among the post-Soviet generations, yet he remains an important historical figure for the Soviet-era generations.<ref>