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Vladimir Lenin

Leader of the Bolsheviks; head of the Soviet government from November 1917 until his death in 1924.

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Dates
22 Apr 1870 – 21 Jan 1924
Also known as
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Vladimir Ulyanov, N. Lenin, Lenin
Background
  • Born in Simbirsk in 1870.12
  • His father became an inspector of schools.34
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Over time
  1. Life 22 Apr 1870 – 21 Jan 1924
  2. head of Russia (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924
  3. head of Soviet Union (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR) 6 Jul 1923 – 21 Jan 1924
How each side tells it

According to Russian government

According to Nadezhda Krupskaya

Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks. In April 1917 he returned from Swiss exile across Germany on the “sealed train”, a transit arranged with the Imperial German government. In November 1917 his party took power in the October Revolution, and he headed the Soviet government until his death in January 1924.

According to the Russian government, his federal design, with the republics’ formal right to secede, was planted in the foundation of the Soviet Union.

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  • Russia 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Primary record 5
  • Soviet Union 6 Jul 1923 – 21 Jan 1924 Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Scholarship & press 6

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  • Alexander Ulyanov elder brother Primary record 137

    Hanged on 20 May 1887 (8 May Old Style), when Lenin was 17.

  • Nadezhda Krupskaya wife Scholarship & press 289

    Married on 22 July 1898 (10 July Old Style) at Shushenskoye in Siberia, where Lenin was in exile. She was his wife until his death in 1924.

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 22 Apr 1870 – 21 Jan 1924 Vladimir Lenin
  2. 8 Nov 1917 – 21 Jan 1924 Vladimir Lenin head of Russia
  3. 6 Jul 1923 – 21 Jan 1924 Vladimir Lenin head of Soviet Union
Proof 14 sources
  1. An Unfinished Autobiography, Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 41, Progress Publishers), 16 Apr 1927. Primary record Archived copy
    My name is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. I was born in Simbirsk on April 10, 1870.
    In the spring of 1887, my elder brother Alexander was executed by Alexander III for an attempt on his life (March 1, 1887).
  2. Historic Figures: Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924), BBC, 6 Nov 2006. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family.
    Like many of his contemporaries, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya.
  3. Vladimir Lenin, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 20 Jul 1998. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    His mother was the daughter of a physician, while his father, though the son of a serf, became a schoolteacher and rose to the position of inspector of schools.
    in 1887 his beloved eldest brother, Aleksandr, a student at the University of St. Petersburg (later renamed Leningrad State University), was hanged for conspiring with a revolutionary terrorist group that plotted to assassinate Emperor Alexander III.
  4. Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, Russian pedagogue, educator, Actual State Councilor was born, Presidential Library (Russia). Scholarship & press Archived copy
    In 1869 Ulyanov was appointed inspector and later on director of public schools in Simbirsk governorate (province).
  5. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I: list of persons, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Lenin, N. (Vladimir Ulyanov), President of the Soviet of People’s Commissars, November 8, 1917.
  6. Soviet Union: A Country Study, Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1991. Scholarship & press
    Lenin chaired the Sovnarkom when he was the de facto head of the party.
    when Lenin died in January 1924
  7. Reminiscences of Lenin (Part I: St. Petersburg), Marxists Internet Archive (International Publishers, 1970; translated by Bernard Isaacs), 1970. Primary record Archived copy
    Vladimir Ilyich told me one day how this liberal "society" had reacted to the arrest of his elder brother Alexander Ulyanov.
    The fate of his brother undoubtedly influenced Vladimir Ilyich profoundly.
  8. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 20 Jul 1998. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    On July 10 (July 22, New Style), 1898, Krupskaya and Lenin were married.
  9. Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna, Encyclopedia of Russian History (Macmillan Reference USA), via Encyclopedia.com, 2004. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    When she and Lenin were both arrested in 1895 and 1896, she followed him to Siberia as his fiancée and later as his wife.
  10. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Internal Workings of the Soviet Union, Library of Congress. Primary record
    Having come to power in October 1917 by means of a coup d'état, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks spent the next few years struggling to maintain their rule against widespread popular opposition.
  11. On the Establishment of the U.S.S.R. (letter to L. B. Kamenev for members of the Politbureau), Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 42, Progress Publishers), 26 Sep 1922. Primary record
    I hope the purport of this concession is clear: we consider ourselves, the Ukrainian S.S.R. and others, equal, and enter with them, on an equal basis, into a new union, a new federation, the Union of the Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia.
  12. Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 42: editors' note 1 to "On the Establishment of the U.S.S.R.", Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 42, Progress Publishers, 1971), 1971. Primary record
    In accordance with Lenin’s proposals the resolution drafted by the C.C.’s Commission was revised.
  13. Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry, Oxford University Press, 1958. Primary record
    Lenin's entry into Russia successful. He is working exactly as we would wish.
  14. Address by the President of the Russian Federation, 21 February 2022, Russian government, 21 Feb 2022. Primary record Archived copy
    Lenin’s ideas of what amounted in essence to a confederative state arrangement and a slogan about the right of nations to self-determination, up to secession, were laid in the foundation of Soviet statehood.
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