VLADIMIR LENIN FROM REVOLUTIONARY TO DICTATOR

“LENIN EXPECTED THAT RUSSIA WOULD INSPIRE GLOBAL REVOLUTION”

With no Vladimir Lenin, there would almost certainly have been no October Revolution in Russia in 1917. That means no communist state, no Soviet Union, and no knowing how different the 20th century could have been. And it all began in 1887 when 17-year-old Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov took his first steps towards becoming Russian revolutionary. Having grown up in a comfortable, loving home in Simbirsk – later renamed Ulyanovsk in his honour