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Vladimir Lenin Influence On Russia

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In the year of 1870, a Soviet Union mastermind was born. Vladimir Lenin was one of the most influential leaders in the 1900s. Lenin’s actions impacted Russia so greatly, that they had his body preserved and people are able to visit every year. In this essay, we will be talking about his life, his political views and his leadership of the USSR. We chose Lenin because he was known as “the most human of humankind”. This intrigued us to learn about his life and legacy.

LIFE:
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and a political theorist. Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 and died at the age of 53 on January 21, 1924. Lenin was born in Simbirsk, Russia with a wealthy family. He gained an interest in revolutionary socialist …show more content…

In the year of 1893 Lenin then moved to Saint Petersburg and then became a professional revolutionary. In 1901 he was arrested and exiled to Siberia, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. He spent most of the subsequent decade and a half in western Europe. Lenin was emerged as a prominent figure in the international revolutionary movement and then became the leader of ‘Bolshevik’ faction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party. After World War 1 Lenin returned back home and started working against the provisional government that had overthrown the tsarist regime.
In 1918, Lenin barely survived an assassination attempt. In April his doctors extracted a bullet from his neck that he had received from the assassin's gun, he recovered quickly, but unfortunately severely wounded. He recovered quickly from his operation, but a month later he fell ill. Lenin was partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Later on in June, he made a partial recovery. He threw himself into the formation of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, the federal system of reorganization that he favoured against Stalin’s unitary

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