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

*He was born in 22 April 1870 and died in 21 January 1924 atthe age of 53.

*He was the son of a teacher and school administrator who hadattained the rank of nobleman.

*Lenin was the Russian revolutionary and Communist politicianwho led the October Revolution in 1917.

*His wife was name Nadezhda Krupskaya (1898-1924) and Leninwas the Atheist which means the non believer.

*Lenin was known as revolutionary, politician and lawyer.

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*Lenin was the follower of the Marxism and his first contribution lay inadapting Marxism to Russian Condition.

*Lenin's massive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxismled 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 theorganization of an underground party capable of surviving against theTsarist police.

*In 1903, Russian Marxists split into two factions, the moderateMensheviks (Menshinstvo) and the Bolsheviks (Bolshinstvo).

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*Bolsheviks was the dominant party led by Lenin and

as the leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed theSoviet state during its initial years (19171924), asit fought to establish control of Russia in theRussian Civil War and worked to create a socialisteconomic system.

*hence, Lenin perfected Bolsheviks revolutonarytheory. He violated Marxist tradition by payingclose attention to the revolutionary potential ofpeasants.

*Lenin also looked closely at the numerous peoples in

Asia who had recently fallen under Westernimperialist domination.

*he was a Russian nationalist, as well as a socialistinternationalist, he had a vision of a modern inworld affairs.

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*On April 16, 1917, Lenin with German help, arrivedin Petrograd from exile in Switzerland. Theprovisional government, he said, could notpossibly preserve Russia from disintegration.

*Most of the soldiers, workers, and peasant would

repudiate the provisional governments cautiousliberalism in favor of a regime expressing theirdemand for peace and land.

*Lenin also felt that only complete state control of

the economy could rescue the country fromdisaster. Hence, Lenin prepared his party for thesecond stage of the revolution of 1917 : theseizure of power by the Bolsheviks. His partyobtained the majorities in the soviets.

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*Lenin permitted elections for the ConstituentAssembly that had been scheduled by theProvisional government. In a free election, theBolsheviks only received 24 percent of the vote.

*After meeting once in January 1918, however, theConstituent Assembly was disband by the

Bolsheviks.*Meanwhile, Lenin contended that he was guidingthe Russian Proletariat and all humanity toward ahigher social order. Symbolizing in Russia andmuch of the world the rebellion of the

disadvantaged against Western (or Capitalist)dominance.

*That is why, in 1918, he changed the name of hisparty from Bolsheviks to Communist, whichimplied a concern for the human community.

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Infancy: V.I. Ulyanov, aged

three.

Youth:c. 1887

Signature

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Exile: Lenin's residence, Zurich, Switzerland,

1920.Exile: Memorial plate, Lenin's residence, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008:

"Here resided, from 21 February 1916 to 2 April 1917, Lenin, the

leader of the Russian Revolution".

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

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

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