*His real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Lenin.

*He was born in 22 April 1870 and died in 21 January 1924 at

the age of 53.
*He was the son of a teacher and school administrator who had
attained the rank of nobleman.
*Lenin was the Russian revolutionary and Communist politician
who led the October Revolution in 1917.
*His wife was name Nadezhda Krupskaya (1898-1924) and Lenin
was the Atheist which means the non believer.
*Lenin was known as revolutionary, politician and lawyer.
*Lenin was the follower of the Marxism and his first contribution lay in
adapting Marxism to Russian Condition.
*Lenin's massive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism
led to the development of Marxism-Leninism.
*However, Lenin's body of work is rejected by traditional Marxists.
*His second contribution followed from the first which is outlining the
organization of an underground party capable of surviving against the
Tsarist police.
*In 1903, Russian Marxists split into two factions, the moderate
Mensheviks (Menshinstvo) and the Bolsheviks (Bolshinstvo).
*Bolsheviks was the dominant party led by Lenin and
as the leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the
Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as
it fought to establish control of Russia in the
Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist
economic system.
*hence, Lenin perfected Bolsheviks revolutonary
theory. He violated Marxist tradition by paying
close attention to the revolutionary potential of
peasants.
*Lenin also looked closely at the numerous peoples in
Asia who had recently fallen under Western
imperialist domination.
*he was a Russian nationalist, as well as a socialist
internationalist, he had a vision of a modern in
world affairs.
*On April 16, 1917, Lenin with German help, arrived
in Petrograd from exile in Switzerland. The
provisional government, he said, could not
possibly preserve Russia from disintegration.
*Most of the soldiers, workers, and peasant would
repudiate the provisional government’s cautious
liberalism in favor of a regime expressing their
demand for peace and land.
*Lenin also felt that only complete state control of
the economy could rescue the country from
disaster. Hence, Lenin prepared his party for the
second stage of the revolution of 1917 : the
seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. His party
obtained the majorities in the soviets.
*Lenin permitted elections for the Constituent
Assembly that had been scheduled by the
Provisional government. In a free election, the
Bolsheviks only received 24 percent of the vote.
*After meeting once in January 1918, however, the
Constituent Assembly was disband by the
Bolsheviks.
*Meanwhile, Lenin contended that he was guiding
the Russian Proletariat and all humanity toward a
higher social order. Symbolizing – in Russia and
much of the world – the rebellion of the
disadvantaged against Western (or “Capitalist”)
dominance.
*That is why, in 1918, he changed the name of his
party from Bolsheviks to Communist, which
implied a concern for the human community.
 Infancy: V.I. Ulyanov, aged
three.

Youth: c. 1887

Signature
Exile: Lenin's residence, Zurich, Switzerland, Exile: Memorial plate, Lenin's residence, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008:
1920. "Here resided, from 21 February 1916 to 2 April 1917, Lenin, the
leader of the Russian Revolution".

Head of State: Lenin at his Kremlin desk, 1918.

Exile: Lenin's residence, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008.