Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (né: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) (1870-1924) was the 1st Premier of the USSR

Revolution

In November 1917, Lenin, the great leader of the Communist Party, led a Proletarian Revolution to overthrew the Provisional Government that had replaced the Empire.

Lenin was one of the most influential persons in all of history. He was both a thinker and a revolutionary. He was an atheist. In 1889, he became a Marxist (as previously formulated by Karl Marx). He obtained a law degree shortly afterwards, and by 1895 was a subversive who was arrested and sent to Siberia as punishment. Once he served his time he left for Western Europe, where he developed his ideas further and became a leader of the Bolsheviks. He returned to Russia after the [[tsar[[ abdicated in March 1917, and then Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the "October Revolution" (November in the Gregorian calendar). He then ruled the Soviet Union under Marxism-Leninism, until his death in 1924. The régime of Josef Stalin, the next Premier of the USSR, saw a reversal of many of the advances brought about by Lenin.