Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a
Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist,
political philosopher, creator of the
Soviet Communist Party,
leader of the
1917 October Revolution, and founder of the
USSR. As head of the
Bolsheviks (1917–1924) he led the
Red Army to victory in the
Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially
socialist state. As a theorist, his extensive theoretical and
philosophical contributions to
Marxism produced
Leninism.Триумф и Трагедия И. В. Сталин: политический портрет. (
Triumph and Tragedy – I. V. Stalin : A Political Portrait) Дмитрий Волкогонов (Dmitriy Volkogonov). Book 1, Part 1, pp. 95–114. Новости Publications. Moscow. 1989.
Early life and background
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov () on in the town of
Simbirsk in the
Russian Empire. Simbirsk, a rural town on the
River Volga nearly 1,500 miles from the capital
Saint Petersburg, would be renamed upon Ulyanov's death fifty-four years later as "Ulyanovsk" in his honour. That same year, Saint Petersburg itself would be renamed Leningrad after Ulyanov's better-known
cadre name. Lenin's parents were
Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, a schoolteacher, and
Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, a government education official. Lenin was baptised on at the local church of St. Nicholas into the
Russian Orthodox...
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