id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3145 Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia .html text/html 30157 3812 71 The Second Congress of the Communist International opened in Petrograd's Smolny Institute in July 1920, representing the last time that Lenin visited a city other than Moscow.[334] There, he encouraged foreign delegates to emulate the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, and abandoned his longstanding viewpoint that capitalism was a necessary stage in societal development, instead encouraging those nations under colonial occupation to transform their pre-capitalist societies directly into socialist ones.[335] For this conference, he authored "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder, a short book articulating his criticism of elements within the British and German communist parties who refused to enter their nations' parliamentary systems and trade unions; instead he urged them to do so to advance the revolutionary cause.[336] The conference had to be suspended for several days due to the ongoing war with Poland,[337] and was relocated to Moscow, where it continued to hold sessions until August.[338] Lenin's predicted world revolution did not materialise, as the Hungarian communist government was overthrown and the German Marxist uprisings suppressed.[339] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3145.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3145.txt