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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Lenin

prime minister of Soviet Union
Also known as: Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
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Albert Resis
Emeritus Professor of History, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb. Author of articles on Russian and Soviet history.
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Vladimir Lenin (born April 10 [April 22, New Style], 1870, Simbirsk, Russia—died January 21, 1924, Gorki [later Gorki Leninskiye], near Moscow) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern (Communist International) and the posthumous source of “Leninism,” the doctrine codified and conjoined with Karl...

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