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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Acting
21 Apr 1870
21 Jan 1924
Simbirsk

Biography

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a m...

Also Known As

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, Vladimir I. Ulyanov, Ле́нин, Vladímir Ilich Uliánov

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