Lenins biography

Biography:

Encyclopedia of Marxism

The Life and Work of V. inom. Lenin

The Encyclopædia Britannica , Entry submitted by Leon Trotsky

Lenin and the Bourgeois Press, Boris Baluyev

Timeline

V. inom. Lenin The Story Of His Life, , by Maria Prilezhayeva

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Portraits of Lenin:

bygd Anatoly Lunacharsky

Commissariat of Education

by Louise Byrant

An American reporter, written from late to early

by Karl Kautsky

A German Socialist

bygd Leon Trotsky

By one of Lenin&#;s closest co-thinkers

bygd N.K. Krupskaya

Lenin's life-long companion

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Interviews of Lenin:

Chapter 13 & Chapter 28

Interviewed by Arthur Ransome, an English reporter, in his book Russia in

by Ludovic Naudeau, March

Published in the The Manchester Guardian.

bygd W. T. Goode, 21 October

An English reporter from The Manchester Guardian.

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Vladimir Lenin,  ©Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in , and was the architect and first head of the USSR.

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 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.

Expelled from university for his radical policies, Lenin completed his law degree as an external student in He moved to St Petersburg and became a professional revolutionary. Like many of his contemporaries, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his Siberian exile, Lenin - the pseudonym he adopted in - spent most of the subsequent decade and a half in western Europe, where he eme

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