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Who is Vladimir Lenin - Maria Marra 10B
Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century
He was the architect and first head of the world's 1st Communist state.
He was born on April 10, 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia
His father was a high official in the area's educational system
Lenin grew up in a family of priveleges due to his father's work, but he faught for the worker's right when an adult causing a little of hipocrise since he had priveleges from his family.
Lenin had a normal education due to him being son of a family of upper class, but as a young man he began to develop radical political views in disagreement with the existing, at the time, government of Russia.
Russia's government at the time were the Tsars and some people say that Lenin might had not agreed with their way of ruling because they executed his older brother, who was part of a group that was trying to kill the Tsar.
Lenin graduated from secondary school with high honors and enrolled at Kazan University, but he was expelled after he was participating in a political demonstration. He retired to the family estate but was permitted to continue his studies away from the university. Later in 1891 he obtained a law degree.
He moved to Petrograd, that was the imperial capital in 1893, and at this point he was an admirer of the German writer Karl Marx
Marx believed in an international revolution by the poor and the lower-class workers in which would lead the way to a new system of power.
Marx argued that under this new system property would be owned as a group and work would be divided equally. Lenin got really addicted to this way of thinking and he was becoming a Marxist Revolutionary.
Lenin was arrested in 1897, he spent some months in jail and later was finally sentenced to three years of exile in the remote area of Siberia. In there he met a women called Nadezhda Krupskaya who he married in 1898.
After he was released in the summer of 1900, he moved to Europe. He spent most of the next seventeen years there, moving from one place to another constantly. Meanwhile he wrote, debated and organized with other European intellectuals.
European Marxists had begun to discuss and prepare for the possibility of a major war breaking among European nations.
Socialists met and condemned such wars in advance, pledging not to support them in 1907 and 1912.
Lenin had the plan and the wish to go way further than that. He had urged active opposition to any European war effort and a transfromation of any war into a worker's revolution.
It came during the outbreak of WW1 and when the wa began, Lenin was lliving in Switzerland. He went to several conferences of radical socialists oposed to the war. He read a very big amount of books on the Marxist idea of state government and wrote a first draft for a book on the subject, The State and Revolution.
He also studied literature dealing with world politics of the time and wrote an important book called, Imperialism The highest State of Capitalismism, in 1916
As the war went on, Lenin had phases of depression and wrote a letter to a close friend that he thought he wouldn't make it to see a revolution. This was a month before the overthrow of the Russian Tsar in the winter of 1917, in which marked the beggining of the 1917 Russian Revolution.