- Born
- DiedJanuary 21, 1924 · Gorki, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow Oblast, Russia] (after a series of strokes)
- Birth nameVladimir Ilich Uliánov
- Nicknames
- N. Lenin
- Starik
- Peterburzhets
- K. Tulin
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism.
Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. He moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralized power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalized banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseNadezhda Krupskaya(July 22, 1898 - January 21, 1924) (his death)
- Children
- Bald head and Van Dyke beard.
- In cooperation with the German government, Lenin and about 30 other Bolsheviks were allowed to ride home from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) about a month after Tsar Nicholas II had been forced to abdicate. No one outside the train car was allowed contact with them while they traveled through Germany, which was at the time at war with Russia. Winston Churchill, who intensely disliked the Bolshevik regime from its inception, likened this operation to transferring "a plague bacilli in a closed bottle".
- He is regarded even in non-Communist circles as one of the greatest revolutionary leaders in history.
- Soviet Russia was the only country to recognize the self-proclaimed Irish Republic in 1919. The republic was succeeded by the Irish Free State in 1922.
- He was a militant anti-smoker.
- Took the custom-made Rolls-Royce previously owned by the murdered Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
- Naivete in politics is worse than a crime.
- The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
- [from his instruction to Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB] Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important for us, communists, to keep the people under control.
- Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
- Comrade Stalin [Joseph Stalin'] is unfit for leadership. He is too rude and undereducated.
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