Vladimir Lenin, (full Name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), who passed away on 21 January 1924, in Gorki Leninskie, Russia, aged 53, 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.
