Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ульянов) (22 April 1870 (10 April (O.S.)) – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik communist party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the main theorist of Leninism. He married the revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya in 1898.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
Ленин
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Ильин
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Н. Ленин
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Старик
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К. Тулин
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Lenin
Native Name:
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Alternative Names:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
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Vladimir Il'ich Lenin
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Vladimir Il'ich Ul'yanov
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V. I. Ul'yanov
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V. I. Lenin
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Vladimir Ulyanov
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Vladimir Ul'yanov
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V. I. Ulyanov
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Vl llyin
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Владимир Ильич Ульянов
History has now confronted us with an immediate task which is the most revolutionary of all the immediate tasks confronting the proletariat of any country. The fulfilment of this task, the destruction of the most powerful bulwark, not only of European, but (it may now be said) of Asiatic reaction, would make the Russian proletariat the vanguard of the international revolutionary proletariat. And we have the right to count upon acquiring this honourable title, already earned by our predecessors, the revolutionaries of the seventies, if we succeed in inspiring our movement, which is a thousand times broader and deeper, with the same devoted determination and vigour.
Sensation is a subjective image of the objective world.
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.