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| | Lenin |
 | | Vladimir Ilich Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and first head of state of the USSR, was also a masterly political thinker whose theories became a significant component of Communist thought and influenced all factions of the Marxist movement. |
 | | Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Apr. 22 (N.S.; Apr. 10, O.S.), 1870, in the provincial city of Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk, renamed in his honor) on the Volga River. |
 | | Lenin's writings, along with those of Marx, for years formed the basis for Communist theory; their legitimacy for years was accepted by all factions of the Marxist movement. |
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