Филипп Ленин

In the last months of 1920, the main forces of the internal counter-revolution and foreign intervention were defeated and the Soviet people began to restore the war-ravaged industry and agriculture, to socialist construction. The situation in the Republic remained difficult. In these conditions it was hard to believe that in a short time it was possible not only to restore the national economy, but also to successfully deploy socialist construction. However, Lenin boldly looked to the future and firmly believed in the victory of socialism...

Lenin arrived in Petrograd late in the evening on April 3, 1917. 23 hours and 10 minutes the train stopped at the platform of the Finland station, which by that time had gathered Petrograd workers. A guard of honor was lined up on the platform. Lenin, climbing on an armored car, made a speech, which ended with a call: "Long live the socialist revolution!" In an armored car, surrounded by people, Lenin went to the mansion, which in 1917 housed the Central and Petrograd committees of the Bolshevik party...

The years of the first world war glorified Rathenau not only as a talented entrepreneur and organizer of production, but also as an original philosopher. The war forced the celebration to take a new look at Imperial leadership, the situation of workers, on the condition of education, health, and overall social-economic system of Germany. His views on historical time, the role of Germany in the world and the factors that will ensure its dignified position, Rathenau outlined in the work "on the problems of the future...

Walter Rathenau was born in the family of a well-known German entrepreneur, the founder of the famous electrotechnical concern AEG ("Allgemeine Elektritsitet geselypaft"). German historian G. Ogger ranks the Rathenau and Siemens family among the few who gave strength to the German electrical industry and helped it achieve world recognition. Walter's father, Emil Rathenau, came from a wealthy Jewish family of Berlin Industrialists and merchants. Emil studied mechanical engineering in Hanover and Zurich, worked as a designer at Borsig's firm...

Early Sunday morning, January 9, 1905, the workers of St. Petersburg, carrying banners, icons, portraits of the king, solemnly went to the Winter Palace, the residence of the king, with a petition in which they wrote about their unbearably hard life. More than one hundred and forty thousand people took part in the procession. And this peaceful demonstration on the orders of the king was met with shots. More than a thousand people were killed and about five thousand wounded. The execution of workers at the Winter Palace is depicted in the painting by I...