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Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
Also known as: Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
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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 Marx’s works by Lenin’s successors to form Marxism-Leninism, which became the Communist worldview. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) If the Bolshevik Revolution ...(100 of 7131 words)