Vladimir Lenin

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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 czar 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 regime of Josef Stalin, the next Premier of the USSR, saw a reversal of many of the advances brought about by Lenin.