Quotes About Ulyanov

Ulyanov moved to Petersburg in 1893,

Ulyanov's colossal capacity for work, combined with his powerful and prolific pen, brought him to the fore as a pamphleteer for revolutionary Marxism during that time of controversy between the populist and Marxist branches of the socialist movement, and between militants and moderates within the Marxist branch.

But Ulyanov had learned an important lesson from his misguided hero worship of Plekhanov. From here on he would exorcise all personal feeling in his political dealings and trust nobody. One had, as he put it, to 'keep a stone in one's sling'.

political change in Russia could come through parliamentary politics and unionisation of the workers in a campaign for social reform, economic freedom, better pay and conditions. Such thinking – suggesting conciliation with capitalism and the monarchy – enraged Ulyanov,