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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university, he was exposed to radical thinking, and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother, a member of a revolutionary group. He graduated from St Petersburg University after being expelled from Kazan University for his political beliefs.

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In 1891. He moved to St Petersburg and became a professional revolutionary. Like many of his colleagues, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his Siberian exile, Lenin (the nickname he adopted in 1901) spent most of the decade and a half in Western Europe, where he emerged as a main figure in the international revolutionary movement and became the leader of the 'Bolshevik' faction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party.

In 1917, Russia was ripe for change. Assisted by the Germans, who hoped that he would cause chaos in the ...

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