Lenin

Le·nin  (lnn), Vladimir Ilich 1870-1924.

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution (1917), and first head of the USSR (1917-1924). As a communist theoretician Lenin held that workers could not develop a revolutionary consciousness without the guidance of a vanguard party and that imperialism was a particular stage of capitalist development.

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Lenin [ˈlɛnɪn]

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(Biographies / Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924) M, Russian, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: Marxist) Vladimir Ilyich (vlaˈdimir iljˈjitʃ), original surname Ulyanov. 1870-1924, Russian statesman and Marxist theoretician; first premier of the Soviet Union. He formed the Bolsheviks (1903) and led them in the October Revolution (1917), which established the Soviet Government. He adopted the New Economic Policy (1921) after the Civil War had led to the virtual collapse of the Russian economy, formed the Comintern (1919), and was the originator of the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union, Marxism-Leninism. After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, many statues of Lenin were demolished

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Lenin - Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) Nikolai Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Vladimir Lenin