|term_start=November 8, 1917
|term_end=January 21, 1924
|preceded=office Established|succeeded=[[Alexei Rykov]]
}}
'''Vladimir Lenin''' (born either Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov <ref>"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Владимир Ильич Улянов, Ленин) was the pseudonym he used after 1900 to disguise his identity.</ref> known as Volodya as a child<ref>http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2017/6/11/the-truth-about-vladimir-lenin-the-father-of-post-truth-politics#.YL00l4WSmUk=</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, although his reasons were implied to be more due to Stalin's lower-class upbringing than any moral objections to Stalin, due to his dismissing Stalin as a "Georgian peasant" when someone suggested him to take Lenin's place. In addition, [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], one of the few members of Stalin's inner circle to serve both Lenin and Stalin, when asked about who was harsher, indicated that Lenin was more severe than Stalin.