| Names |
VLADIMIR ILYICH
LENIN |
| Date of
Birth |
April 22, 1870 |
| Date of
Death |
January 21, 1924 |
| Identity |
Russian communist
revolutionary , politician and political theorist. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1887: His brother was
executed.
- 1893: He moved to St.
Petersburg, as a senior member in the League of Struggle for
the Emancipation of the Working Class. Soon thereafter, he
was arrested on charges of sedition and exiled to Siberia
for three years. Thereafter he married and fled to Western
Europe, living in Germany, England and Switzerland.
-
April 16, 1917: On this
day, he returned to Petrograd from exile in
Switzerland.
- 1917: He played an important role
in orchestrating the October Revolution in 1917, which led
to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government and
the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet
Republic, the world's first constitutionally socialist
state.
- 1917: He became the leader
of the Russian Socialist Republic.
- 1921: Lenin proposed the
New Economic Policy, a system of state capitalism that
started the process of industrialisation and recovery from
the Russian Civil War.
- 1922: He became the Premier
of the Soviet Union.
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| General |
- His birth name is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
- Politically he was a Marxist, and his theoretical
contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism,
which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively
come to be known as Marxism-Leninism.
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