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Key Facts & Summary

• Since his youth, Lenin was interested in politics and was especially fascinated by Marx and Engels’ ideologies.
• He became the founder and leader of the Russian Communist Party.
• During the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party the party split between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.

  Lenin joined the latter.

• Before he died, he wrote in his will that he did not want Stalin to succeed him. In fact, he desired Trotsky to take the lead.

Biography

Lenin is the pseudonym of Vladimir Il’ič Ul’janov.

He was born into a middle-class family in Simbirsk – a small town on the Volga River – on April 22, 1870. His father directed public school and was awarded by the Tsar for his service, whereas his mother was a cultured musician (Collier’s Encyclopedia).

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Lenin was very fond of his brother Alexander who was three years older than him. In his early childhood, he immediately demonstrated that he was a good student. Although his