Who is Vladimir Lenin?

Vladimir Lenin was a famous figure in Russia since he was the leader of the Bolshevik movement, the first ruler of Soviet Russia and the dominant figure of the Russian Revolution. Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the town of Simbirsk in 1870. The Ulyanovs were of mixed ethnic heritage, including Russian, German, Swedish and Jewish strains. Not long into his first term at Kazan University, Vladimir was arrested and expelled for participating in student protests against the Tsar. Being exiled to his grandfather’s estate in a small village, he immersed himself in the study of radical literature, particularly Karl Marx, whose book Das Kapital was a great major influence and by 1889 Vladimir was a self-professed Marxist. Although he was loved by some and hated by others, his ideologies coupled with those of Marx became known as Marxism-Leninism, and it did much to solidify the founding of a number of radical schools of thought that followed.

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