Vladimir Lenin

About Lenin

• Born in April, 22 1824 • Died in January, 1970 • His full name was Vladimir Llyrich Lenin• Lenin was not his real last name it was

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Vladimir

• Two situations in particular shaped his life. The first came when Lenin was a boy and his father, an inspector of schools, was threatened with early retirement by a suspicious government nervous about the influence public school had on Russian society.

• The more significant and more tragic situation came in 1887, when Lenin’s older brother, Aleksandr, a university student at the time, was arrested and executed for being a part of a group planning to assassinate Emperor Alexander III. With his father already dead, Lenin now became the man of the family. Lenin founded the Russian communist party

(“Vladimir”) • He was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and was the architect of the soviet

state.(“Vladimir”)

Vladimir Lenin quotes

• "A lie told often enough becomes the truth.“ (Vladimir).

Education

• Lenin received his law degree, finishing his schoolwork in 1892. He moved to the city of Samara, where his client base was largely composed of Russian peasants. (“Vladimir”)