Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov or famously known as Vladimir Lenin was born 22
April 1870Simbirsk, former Russian Empire. However, who was he and why
does he matter?
Lenin grew up in the small city formerly known as Simbirsk now
Ulyanovsk. He had three brothers and three sisters, his parents Ilya
Ulyanov, and Maria Blank. Following his brother, Alexanders execution
in 1887 due to a bomb they found that was supposed to kill Tsar
Nicholas Romanov ll. Lenin took the news well are proceeded in his
life, but since his brother was a terrorist, he would get kicked out of
college. Later he moved to St Petersburg and started reading the
writings of Karal Marx. Later in 1893, he became the head of a Marxist
study group. Then in 1897, Lenin was arrested for sedition and exiled
to Siberia for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After
his exile, Lenin moved to Munich, where he became a prominent theorist
in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
Moreover, he kept on writing his revolutionary theories, later to be
known as Leninism. His writing would be transported to Russia by
smugglers one of which Josef Stalin, later dictator of the USSR. In
1903, Lenin took a vital role in an RSDLP ideological divide, leading
the Bolshevik (the majority in English) faction against Julius Martov's
Mensheviks (The minority in English). In 1904, he moved to Switzerland
with his wife to write about his ideas in peace. Later in 1905, there
was a peaceful protest outside of the Russian palace where workers were
protesting for equal rights. When Nicholas commanded to police to shoot
the protesters, over 1 thousand people died. This just outraged people
more. After this Lenin moved from Switzerland to Russia again, Lenin
was almost caught again in Russia writing about how to start a
revolution, so he fled to Switzerland. In 1914 Russia was pulled into
WW1 hullting everyone revolutionary plans. In 1917 the tsar was
overthrown and replaced by a Provisional Government. However, after
this, they just went back to war which was the whole reason they
overthrew the Tsar. People were outraged and still wanted a revolution.
In 1917 the Germans sent Lenin on a train to Russia to stir up
political unrest. After Lenin arrived in Russia he made a speech in
public saying the revolution was not over and they had done a lousy
job, but no one was listening. Later that year he fled to Finland due
to people calling him a German spy. In October of 1917, he snuck back
into St. Petersburg and met up with his comrades. Then they broke into
the winter palace and captured the government members at gunpoint. In
one night Lenin became the leader of the USSR with none being harmed.
He continued to lead his country promising what they wanted, “Peace,
bread, and land.” His first act as leader was to end the war with
Germany. In 1920 Lenin was shot twice in the chest, but later
recovering. Later after a famon swept over Russia Lenin stopped
communism and let the people sell their crops. This worked and later
Lenin continued. In 1924 Lenin died of a stroke. Even though his reign
was short, he changed the course of history is to the best leader of
the Soviets and a brilliant mind.
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