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|birth_date=April 22, 1870

|birth_date=April 22, 1870

|birth_place=Simbirsk, [[Russian Empire]]

|birth_place=Simbirsk, [[Russian Empire]]

|death_date=January 21, 1924 (aged 53)

|death_date=January 21, 1924

|death_place=Gorki Leninskiye, [[Soviet Union]]

|death_place=Gorki Leninskiye, [[Soviet Union]]

|resting_place=Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow

|resting_place=Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow

|succeeded=Alexei Rykov

|succeeded=Alexei Rykov

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'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref>) (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]].  All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991.  Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]], who was an even worse tyrant.

'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref>) ([[April]] 22, [[1870]] – [[January]] 21, [[1924]]) was the leader of Russian [[Communism]] and an important theoretician of [[Marxism]]. Coming to power in 1917, he became dictator of the [[Soviet Union]].  All over the Soviet Union and even to some extent some Western countries, there were statues and paintings honoring his memory; some were removed when Communism collapsed in 1991.  Lenin repudiated and tried to stop his successor [[Joseph Stalin]], who was an even worse tyrant.

==Early life==

==Early life==