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[[File:683px-Lenin.jpg|thumbnail|270px200px|left|Vladimir Lenin]]
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (later known as Lenin as he solely nicknamed himself) was one of the leading political figures in the course of the 20th century. He was the revolutionary thinker behind the USSR idea (a.k.a. The Great Soviet Union), fought to materialize it and masterminded the Bolshevik bloody takeover of power in Russia after World War One. Although Lenin's reign as the head of the newly created Soviet Union was extraordinarily his influence stretched throughout the 20th century.
====Lenin’s Early Life====[[File:Lenin-circa-1887.jpg|thumbnail|220px|left|Vladimir Lenin in 1887]]Lenin Ilyich Ulyanov was born on 22 April 1870 in Simbirsk on the Volga River into a well-educated family. Once he He excelled at school, he and chose to pursue a law studies and career. However, later in while he was at university, angered and influenced by the cruel public execution of his brother (being a member of a revolutionary group himself) at the hands of the ruling Tsarist regime, Lenin became far more radical in his thinking.<ref>Lenin’s older brother - Aleksandr Ulyanov, was involved with “Narodovoltsy” – a revolutionary terrorist society and in 1891 he was arrested and executed for taking part in an assassination plot against Tsar Alexander III.</ref> That event, together His brother's execution radicalized Vladimir. He turned his anger towards =the ruling Tsarist regime. His brother's execution along with his father’s death, marked a turning point in young Lenin’s his life and broadly determined shaped his path of in the future revolutionary we know today. [[File:Lenin-circa-1887.jpg|thumbnail|150px|left|Vladimir Lenin in 1887]] Shortly Soon after these critical eventshis brother execution, Lenin was expelled from the university for his active participation in student protests against Tsarist regime and . He was forced to continue his law studies as an external student at St. Petersburg University. Around that this time he also became passionately interested in Karl Marx’s works. Unsurprisingly, even before concluding his education, young Lenin He joined the Marxists groups at the age of when he was 21 as to become and in essence became a professional revolutionary. Lenin quickly got became involved with various Marxist societies and radical groups and even published several his writings of his own. Almost all of them were immediately banned on politics and restricted by the ruling regime, declared illegal and only passed from hand to hand. And because he caught the eye of the Russian radicals, Lenin was declared “enemy of the state” by the Russian police. He was mercilessly chased by the Tsarists for his radical views and ideas and soon he was arrested and exiled to SiberiaMarxism. During his Siberian exile Vladimir adopted the famous “Lenin” pseudonym himself – the nick-name he’s become best known for<ref>Throughout his life Lenin often used many different pseudonyms for work or for security reasons</ref>
===Lenin - the Young Revolutionary=== Once Lenin was released, he continued to passionately work on his views regarding social imbalance and formed the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks would become the preeminent party of Russian Marxists shaped the future Communist Party.<ref>Initially establishing the so-called Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party and later – Communist Party.</ref> The synthesis of Lenin’s views combined together with those of Karl Marx created what we now know as “Marxism-Leninism” or the basis of whole Communist doctrine throughout the 20th century. [[File:Vladimir_Lenin_plays_chess_with_Alexander_Bogdanov_during_a_visit_to_Maxim_Gorky_(April_,10_(23)_-_April,_17_(30)_1908).jpg|thumbnail|325px|left|Vladimir Lenin plays chess with Alexander Bogdanov in 1908]]His teachings attracted more and more passionate followers and were not popular . Unsurprisingly, he writing unpopular with the Russian authorities at all – he was, after all, against the ruling Tsarist regime and class divisions in society. Vladimir aimed argued in favor at total state ownership of goodsall property, abolishing Tsarists privileges, equal rights for all and lack the elimination of workless personnel - even if that meant going to extremes like poets serving in army or getting involved with peasant workunemployment. As the tension grew, Lenin decided to leave the country for security reasons and move to Western Europe. He spent there most of the subsequent decade and a half and continued 15 in self-imposed exile. After his move to play Eastern Europe, he became a key role also in prominent member of the international revolutionary movement.
Away from Russia , he created his own propaganda means continued to publish and won even more followers on his side. <ref>E.g. He created the published his legendary newspaper “Iskra” (“Spark”) in Munich with the motto “From Spark to Flame!”</ref> Aided by foreign funds, Lenin actively challenged established the established doctrine, policy and institution of the ruling Tsarist regimes. Vladimir quickly learnt, that the real force was within the proletariat – workers, soldiers and peasants – masses who would become his revolution’s weapons and dictatorship’s instruments later.
====World War I Fatigue==[[File:Russian_prisoners_tannenberg.jpg|thumbnail|350px|Russian prisoners after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Tanneburg in 1914]]==In 1917, exhausted by World War One, Tsarist Russia was up for a changewreck. It was the perfect chaos moment for Lenin to return home. He was additionally funded by the Germans who Germany, in effort to destabilize Russia, helped send Lenin back to Russia. They hoped that he Lenin would undermine the Russian war efforts. Instead of arrested and exiled again, Lenin was warmly welcomed home and supported by other radical thinkers (e.g. such as Leon Trotsky) he . He quickly became the leader of the Marxist movement and led the Bolsheviks in the bloody violent Red October Revolution. Lenin, much to his own surprise, effectively ended the Russian Empire rather easily and established the Soviet state that would soon become a global superpower. Masses loved him, he The Tsar had won their full support become incredibly unpopular and devotion with his speeches and “illegal” writings calling for a changewere willing to embrace Lenin's revolution. [[File:Russian_prisoners_tannenberg. jpg|thumbnail|350px|left|Russian prisoners after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Tanneburg in 1914]]In the following almost three years of civil war, the Bolsheviks successfully assumed total control of the countryRussia. Vladimir Lenin acted as the first head of this new socialistic regime and was the architect of the USSR itself. Lenin also commanded and led the famous Red Army - established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. <ref>A.k.a. Red October or Bolshevik Revolution </ref>
Lenin proved decisive and ruthless from the very beginning: he . He neglected his fellow countrymen sufferings and mercilessly crushed , because he was focused crushing any internal opposition or riots. The Red Army or as it was also commonly referred to - The Great Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army - was raised by Lenin’s Bolsheviks to oppose the various military collectively known as the White army during the Russian Civil War. After 1922 , the Red Army became was transformed into the army Army of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics established by the new regime. In February 1946 it effectively transformed, embodied and led the Soviet Armed Forces or Soviet Army. Historically, the Red Army is also credited as being the decisive land force in the Allied victory in World War II during the operations on the Eastern Front.
====Lenin’s Cult of Personality====
Lenin had an amazing power over the crowds – he was a great powerful and gifted orator with truly inspirational power. From early age Vladimir was capable of effectively transmitting communicating complicated concepts and simplifying any complicated matter ideas to the masses until people lost their will and eventually got their minds enslavedhis audience. But make no mistake: some may celebrate Lenin as a defendant of workers’ rightscould effectively communicate with Russians who had limited education. Unfortunately, but he Lenin was much more decisive and prepared interested in building a country around his persona instead of trying to cause horrific mass suffering and sacrifice countless human improve the lives in the pursuit of Communist goalsRussian citizens. Lenin was fairly ruthless with any opposition to his rule. Millions of free-will poets, philosophers or priests lost their life lives or were forced to emigrate.<ref>Church The OrthodoxChurch was almost completely banned.</ref>
Lenin’s absolute authoritarian regime soon gained lots of opponents generated opposition and he narrowly survived a few assassination attempts. In one of these attempts, Vladimir Lenin was severely wounded and his long term health was affected. However, Lenin was a true 's injury and workaholic, which in effect further ruined nature eroded his health. In May 1922 he suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He lost his power of speech and his right arm and leg were paralyzed. In December came , he had another stroke. The third followed in March 1923 and turned him into a living corpse. Lenin died on 24 January 1924. His corpse was embalmed and emblematically placed in a mausoleum in his memoriam on Moscow's Red Square. St Petersburg was named renamed Leningrad (The City of Lenin)in his honor.
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