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[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|right|thumb|Vladimir Lenin]]

[[Image:Khvhkgfiy.jpg|right|thumb|Vladimir Lenin]]

'''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>) (1870–1924) 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.

'''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.

==Early life==

==Early life==

* [[Dictatorship]]

* [[Dictatorship]]

** [[List of dictators]]

** [[List of dictators]]

** [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]

** [[Dictatorship of the proletariat]]

** [[List of Communist States]]

** [[List of Communist States]]

* Desai, Meghnad, ed. ''Lenin's Economic Writings.'' (1989). 363 pp.

* Desai, Meghnad, ed. ''Lenin's Economic Writings.'' (1989). 363 pp.

* Pipes, Richard, ed. ''The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive.'' (1996). 185 pp.

* Pipes, Richard, ed. ''The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive.'' (1996). 185 pp.

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