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person_profile-Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin Died at age: 53

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Vladimir Lenin

Date of Birth:

Apr 21, 1870

Country of birth:

Simbirsk

Died:

Jan 21, 1924

Biography of

Vladimir Lenin

    Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.

    Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.

    Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.

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Vladimir Lenin

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Filmography of

Vladimir Lenin

Found 33 Movies in total

The Return of Vertov

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

Aurora's Sunrise

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

The Secret Masonic Victory of World War II

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Self - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

Himself - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Russian Revolution

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2017

Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

The Chosen

Himself - Politician (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

Laissez-faire

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

Reagan

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2011

The Soviet Story

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

The Corporation

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

Stalin: Man of Steel

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2003

Naqoyqatsi

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1996

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

Cinema in Russia

Archive footage ( Actor )

... 1979

A Grin Without a Cat

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1977

Caudillo

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1977

The Society of the Spectacle

himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1974

The Guns of August

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1964

La Rabbia

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

The Fight For Peace

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1939

Tsar to Lenin

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1937

Three Songs About Lenin

Himself ( Actor )

... 1934

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

Author

... 1927

Anniversary of the Revolution

Self - Politician ( Actor )

... 1918