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  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, at Simbirsk (later called Ulyanovsk in his honor), he was the son of a school and civil service official and was drawn early to the revolutionary cause, especially when his brother, Aleksandr I. Ulyanov, was executed (1887) for his participation in a plot on the life of Alexander III.
Lenin was in Switzerland during the early years of World War I. In his view the war was an imperialist struggle; since imperialism was “the final stage of capitalism,” it was a historical necessity that the war would offer opportunities for a revolution of the proletariat.
Lenin concluded that Russia was now ripe for a socialist revolution, arguing that the moderate provisional government represented the bourgeoisie whereas the soviets represented, in his words, a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.
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 BBC - History - Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924)
Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917 and was the architect and first head of the Soviet state.
Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well educated family.
After his Siberian exile, Lenin - the pseudonym he adopted in 1901 - spent most of the subsequent decade and a half in western Europe, where he emerged as a prominent figure in the international revolutionary movement and became the leader of the 'Bolshevik' faction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party.
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  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Encyclopedia.com
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, at Simbirsk (later called Ulyanovsk in his honor), he was the son of a school and civil service official and was drawn early to the revolutionary cause, especially when his brother, Aleksandr I. Ulyanov, was executed (1887) for his participation in a plot on the life of Alexander III.
Lenin was in Switzerland during the early years of World War I. In his view the war was an imperialist struggle; since imperialism was "the final stage of capitalism," it was a historical necessity that the war would offer opportunities for a revolution of the proletariat.
Lenin concluded that Russia was now ripe for a socialist revolution, arguing that the moderate provisional government represented the bourgeoisie whereas the soviets represented, in his words, a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.
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 Lenin - MSN Encarta
Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
For this reason, Lenin believed that Russia was ready for a revolution led by the lower classes—a revolution that would result in the overthrow of the imperial regime and the establishment of a socialist economy and state.
Lenin was convinced that the war signaled the final decline of the worldwide capitalist economy and thus was bringing nearer the socialist revolution.
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 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), 1870-1924
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, April 22, 1870, in the provincial city of Simbirsk on the Volga River.
Lenin agreed with other Marxists that the development of industrial capitalism in Russia was the key to radical change.
Lenin was forced into exile (this time to Finland) during the July Days, an abortive uprising against the Provisional Government.
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 Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Biography, Photos of Lenin
Vladimir was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which he described as an adaptation of Marxism to "the age of imperialism."
WWI begins in 1914, Lenin is forced to leave Russia, and emmigrates to Berne, Switzerland because the large Social Democratic parties of Europe comprising of Karl Kautsky, supported their various countries' war efforts, Lenin was shocked, at first refusing to believe that the German Social Democrats had voted for war credits.
Lenin Museum - Lenin museum is of course in Moscow.
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 VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN
Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), a quiet town on the Volga River.
Lenin's father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, was a teacher who became director of schools in Simbirsk province.
Lenin received a law degree from St. Petersburg University in 1891 and joined a law firm in Samara.
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 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin was born on 22 April 1870 in Simbirsk (now renamed Ulyanovsk), on the River Volga, and became a lawyer in St Petersburg.
On arriving in Russia, Lenin established himself at the head of the Bolsheviks, against the provisional government of Kerensky.
A complicated power struggle ensued, but eventually Lenin triumphed on 8 November 1917;; a Bolshevik government was formed, and peace negotiations with Germany were begun, leading to the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litovsk on 3 March 1918.
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 Wikinfo | Vladimir Lenin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), original name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) (April 10 (April 22, New Style), 1870 - January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the founder of the ideology of Leninism.
Lenin was taken to his private apartment in the Kremlin, and refused to venture to a hospital, believing other assassins would be waiting there.
Despite Lenin's expressed wish shortly before death that no memorials be created for him, various politicians sought to better their own position vicariously by association with Lenin after his death, and his character was elevated to almost mythical status, with statue after monument after memorial springing up in his honor.
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 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, , Legends, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin profile, In his short career in power, from 1917 until his ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Even when we strip Lenin of the cult that was created all around him after his death, when we strip away the myths of his "superman kindness", he remain a peculiarly modest figure who wore a shabby waistcoat, worked sixteen-hour days, and read extensively.
In the years before and after the October 1917 coup, Lenin was the avatar of a group of radical intellectuals who sought a revolution that did not merely attempt to redress the economic balances under czarism.
The ubiquitous Lenin was a symbol of the repressive society itself.
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 Lenin
Lenin agreed and on the evening of 24th October, 1917, orders were given for the Bolsheviks began to occupy the railway stations, the telephone exchange and the State Bank.
Lenin himself was considered a man of robust health, and this health seemed to be one of the indestructible pillars of the revolution.
Lenin had the greatness and the human, all-too-human sympathy to be a comrade to all, the group of fellow dictators and the peasants who loved him.
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 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin founded the Russian Communist party and led the 1917 Russian Revolution, which placed the Bolshevik party in charge of the government.
The establishment of the Soviet Union can be traced to Lenin's study of revolution and the ruthless imposition of a one-party state based on Lenin's interpretation of Marxism.
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, a town on the Volga River.
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 Vladimir lenin - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin — Infoplease.com
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov [Lenin] (1870-1924) was a follower of Karl Marx, the leader of the Bolshevik revolutionaries, and the founder of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Mikhail Kalinin 1919
White Marble Monument of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Parque Lenin
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 VLADMIR ILYICH LENIN – 80th Anniversary of his deathThe relevance of his ideas today
Known simply as Lenin, a pseudonym from his illegal underground work, he was without doubt the greatest revolutionary of his time, a giant of a man, whose actions changed the course of history in the 20th Century.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born on the 10th April 1870, at Simbirsk on the Volga.
Lenin's individual role in 1917 was crucial, and serves to highlight the vital role, under certain circumstances, of the individual in history.
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 Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Lenin had promissed that the suspension of bourgeois freedoms was to be temprary during the Revolution and Civil War.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk which in the Soviet era was remamed Ulyanovsk to honor Lenin.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks with "Peace and Bread" their rallying cry succeeded in overthrowing the moderate Kerensky government when they insisted in honoring commitments to the Allies and keeping Russia in the War.
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 Malaspina Great Books - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924) who used the alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, first leader of the Soviet Union and the namesake of Leninism.
Lenin was the son of a civil service official, and distinguished himself in the study of Latin and Greek.
Lenin was known for his great intellect (he was a friend of Albert Einstein), his modesty and was not given to personal excess.
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 Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenin is also credited with translating the Communist Manifesto into Russian in the period between being expelled from the University and obtaining his license to practice law.
Lenin was an author of several theoretical works in philosophy such as Materialism and Empiriocriticism which became fundamental in Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
Lenin died on January 24, 1924 (not January 21), aged 53.
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 TIME 100: V.I. Lenin
Lenin was the initiator of the central drama — the tragedy — of our era, the rise of totalitarian states.
A bookish man with a scholar's habits and a general's tactical instincts, Lenin introduced to the 20th century the practice of taking an all-embracing ideology and imposing it on an entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition.
As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and party organizer.
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 Heaven on Earth . Leaders and Thinkers: Vladmir Ilyich Lenin | PBS
Born Vladimir Ulyanov, Lenin was the scion of a family that had risen within two generations from serfdom to nobility.
Lenin picked up where his brother left off and in 1895, was arrested, imprisoned and ultimately exiled.
Even those socialists who decried Lenin's violent methods or who viewed his state as little more than a caricature of their goals, nonetheless felt strengthened in the conviction that history was flowing from capitalism to socialism.
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 VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN - LIFE AND WORK
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 in the Volga town of Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, where he spent his childhood and youth, those formative years that were to transform him into a great revolutionary and thinker.
Lenin also explained that such a struggle could be successful only provided that the working class led the peasantry, a class which was disunited and vacillating because it consisted of working people who were also private owners, and whose social position was that between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
Lenin called this his "green study" and it was here that he lived and worked all through the summer of 1917 and discussed questions of party activity in that complex period of revolutionary development with other party leaders whom Yemelyanov or some member of his family would guide to the spot.
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 Soviet-Empire.com - Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
He was arrested in December 1887 for participation in a student revolutionary movement, was expelled from the university and exiled to the village of Kokushkino in Kazan Province.
During the revolution of 1905 -1907 Lenin developed the idea of the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois democratic revolution, and worked out the theory of the expansion of the bourgeois democratic revolution into socialist revolution.
During this time Lenin worked out a plan for the construction of socialism and put forward principles for a new economic policy.
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 The Lenin museum: Lenin and his Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born in the town of Simbirsk the 22nd April 1870.
Lenin edited this paper, and during his editorship the question of Finnish independence was covered in every issue.
Lenin had several times hid from his enemies in Finland and Tampere, and later he employed several Finns as bodyguards, valuing their trustworthiness highly.
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 "THE PARTY-Red Line: LENIN Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
He was arrested in December 1887 for participation in a student revolutionary movement, was expelled from the university and exiled to the village of Kokushkino in Kazan Province.
During the revolution of 1905 -1907 Lenin developed the idea of the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois democratic revolution, and worked out the theory of the expansion of the bourgeois democratic revolution into socialist revolution.
During this time Lenin worked out a plan for the construction of socialism and put forward principles for a new economic policy.
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 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lenin returned to Russia for two years but the promised revolution did not happen as the Tsar made enough concessions to mollify the people.
Lenin made a deal with the Germans; if they could get him safely back to Russia, he would take power and pull Russia out of the war.
In May 1922 Lenin suffered the first of a series of strokes, less than a year later he suffered a second one.
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