Vladimir Lenin, (full Name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), born on 22 April 1860, was a Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader.
He played a leading role in
the October Revolution of 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government and
establishing a one-party state under the new Communist Party that became the
Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin became interested in Marxism while
at university and was later exiled to Siberia for sedition. After travelling
through Europe Lenin returned to Russia to join the 1917 Russian Revolution,
writing his April Theses for the Bolshevik Party on the way.
In power, Lenin began reforms to shift crown and
private estates into soviet worker's control. He consolidated power through
imposing censorship and authorizing the "Red Terror".
Ideologically a Marxist, his political theories
are known as Leninism.
On his death in 1924, Saint Petersburg was renamed
Leningrad in his honour and his body was embalmed and placed on display in a
Mausoleum in Red Square.
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