Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.
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Vladimir Lenin in our timeline
- Lenin Reaches Finland Station (April 16, 1917)
- Bolsheviks Storm the Winter Palace (November 7, 1917)
- Bolsheviks Establish Ukraine's Soviet Republic (December 25, 1917)
- Old New Year Under New Calendar (January 14, 1918)
- Bolshevik Government Relocates to Moscow (March 11, 1918)
- USSR Formally Established (December 30, 1922)
- Lenin Dies at Gorki (January 21, 1924)
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