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====Lenin’s Early Life====Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on 22 April 1870 in Simbirsk on the Volga River into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and chose to pursue law studies and career. However, while he was at university his 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. 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 his life and shaped his path in the future.[[File:Lenin-circa-1887.jpg|thumbnail|150px|left|Vladimir Lenin in 1887]] Soon after his brother execution, Lenin was expelled from the university for his active participation in student protests against the Tsarist regime. He was forced to continue his law studies as an external student at St. Petersburg University. Around this time he also became passionately interested in Karl Marx’s works. He joined Marxists groups when he was 21 and in essence became a professional revolutionary. Lenin became involved with various Marxist societies and radical groups and published his writings on politics and Marxism.
====Lenin - the Young Revolutionary== == Once Lenin was released, he continued to work on his views regarding social imbalance passionately 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 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. Unsurprisingly, his writing unpopular with the Russian authorities. Vladimir argued in favor at total state ownership of all property, abolishing Tsarists privileges, equal rights for all and the elimination of unemployment. 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 15 in self-imposed exile. After his move to Eastern Europe, he became a prominent member of the international revolutionary movement.
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 body 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.
====Conclusion==== If we measure greatness by the power of will and the scale of damage, then Lenin was truly by all means one of the most remarkable politicians. He destroyed one powerful empires transformed himself from imprisoned radical to create another based on extreme violencean absolute ruler in three decades. In many ways he defined Lenin's shadow hung over the development of world history throughout the 20th centurySoviet Union and Europe for another 70 years. Certainly, While Lenin was the founder of the idea remarkable orator and the guiding spirit of the Soviet Republics for many decades that followed - a communist philosopherwriter, disciple his takeover of Karl Marx, Russia was a leader of the Bolshevik (Communist) Party and the mastermind of the fluke. In 1917 Red October Revolution. Some may consider him a defender, others - a tyrant; some call him a saint, many more – the Russian Empire was a devildisaster. But all in all Lenin played an enormous role in It was led by the history of the 20th centuryRomanov's who were unpopular, foolish and incompetent. He applied communist ideas to real life and his “experiment” forever changed World War I had also fatally weakened the face of the worldRussian Empire. Not only did he reshape all Russia but also Lenin's revolution would have been quickly snuffed out if had millions of people bent to his will, changing the very course of occurred at any other time in Russian history in his own regard. Lenin was 's timing could not have been better. Lenin's luck allowed him to become the first revolutionary dictator of the century with influence on a global scale. He was not the last and paved the way for Stalin, Hitler, Mao and many others that followed as his Marxism-Leninism ideas and works were refreshed and broadly adopted afterwards during the Cold War. Nonetheless, it took over 70 years and millions of lives to put an end to Lenin’s era and forced utopia.<div class="portal" style="width:85%;">
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