Vladimir Lenin
Russian politician, communist theorist and the founder of the Soviet Union, one of the initiators and organizers of the Red Terror / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
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Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ленин | |
1st Leader of the Soviet Union | |
In office 30 December 1922 – 21 January 1924 | |
President | Mikhail Kalinin |
Preceded by | Office established[1] |
Succeeded by | Joseph Stalin |
Premier of Russian SFSR | |
In office 8 November 1917 – 21 January 1924 | |
Preceded by | Office established Alexander Kerensky (as Chairman of Russian Provisional Government) |
Succeeded by | Joseph Stalin |
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Born | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-04-22)22 April 1870 Simbirsk, Russian Empire |
Died | 21 January 1924(1924-01-21) (aged 53) Gorki, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Resting place | Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Other political affiliations | League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class (1895–1898) |
Spouse(s) | (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Wife) |
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Alma mater | Saint Petersburg Imperial University |
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin (help·info) (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian lawyer, revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution. He was the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917. Lenin's ideas became known as Leninism.