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Wikipedia: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин 22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов), was the Communist Russian revolutionary who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolshevik Party, he was premier of the USSR during its initial years (1917–24), during which the Bolsheviks fought the Russian Civil War (1917–24) whilst establishing a socialist economic system in a semi–feudal country. As a politician, Vladimir Lenin was a persuasive orator, as a political scientist his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Marxism–Leninism, the pragmatic Russian application of the German (traditional) Marxism.
![[Lenin working in the Kremlin, 1918.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_office_1918_s.jpg "Lenin working in the Kremlin, 1918.")
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![[Kamenev and Lenin, at Gorki, south of Moscow, 1922.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kamenev_lenin_s.jpg "Kamenev and Lenin, at Gorki, south of Moscow, 1922.")
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![["Here resided, from 21 February 1916 to 2 April 1917, Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution"]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Z_C3_BCrich_Spiegelgasse_14_Lenin_IMG_1325_s.jpg "\"Here resided, from 21 February 1916 to 2 April 1917, Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution\"")
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![[Lenin's residence during his exile in Zürich, Switzerland, taken in 1920.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/House_of_Lenin_in_Zurich_s.jpg "Lenin's residence during his exile in Zürich, Switzerland, taken in 1920.")
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![[Jewish children killed in a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ekaterinoslav1905_s.jpg "Jewish children killed in a 1905 pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk).")
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![[Trotsky, Lenin and Kamenev at the II Party Congress in 1919.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/1919_Trotsky_Lenin_Kamenev_Party_Congress_s.jpg "Trotsky, Lenin and Kamenev at the II Party Congress in 1919.")
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![[Lenin statue in Gorki Leninskiye]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Sitting_Lenin_monument_in_Gorki_Leninskiye_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Gorki Leninskiye")
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![[Lenin statue in Kineshma]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_statue_in_Kineshma_2C_next_to_the_Volga_2C_close_up_view_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Kineshma")
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![[Lenin monument on Oktyabrskaya Square, Moscow]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Oktyabraskaya_statue_lenin_s.jpg "Lenin monument on Oktyabrskaya Square, Moscow")
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![[Lenin statue at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre, Moscow]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_monument_at_the_D0_92_D0_94_D0_9D_D0_A5_28VDNKh_29_s.jpg "Lenin statue at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre, Moscow")
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![[Lenin statue in Saint Petersburg]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_finlandski_full_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Saint Petersburg")
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![[Lenin statue in Dushanbe]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Dushanbe_Lenin_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Dushanbe")
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![[Statue in Borzna]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Borzna_Lenin_s.jpg "Statue in Borzna")
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![[Lenin statue in Kolomna]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_statue_in_Kolomna_2C_detail_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Kolomna")
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![[Lenin statue in Tiraspol]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/_D0_9B_D0_B5_D0_BD_D0_B8_D0_BD_D0_A2_D0_B8_D1_80_D0_B0_D1_81_D0_BF_D0_BE_D0_BB_D1_8C_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Tiraspol")
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![[Lenin statue in Tula]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_monument_in_Tula_2C_Russia_s.jpg "Lenin statue in Tula")
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![[Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, 1919. (detail)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_and_Wife_1919_crop_s.jpg "Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, 1919. (detail)")
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![[Police photograph of V. I. Lenin, December 1895.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_1895_mugshot_s.jpg "Police photograph of V. I. Lenin, December 1895.")
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![[Lenin c. 1887.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_circa_1887_s.jpg "Lenin c. 1887.")
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![[Lenin's residence in Zürich in 2008.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Z_C3_BCrich_Spiegelgasse_14_Lenin_IMG_1327_s.jpg "Lenin's residence in Zürich in 2008.")
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![[Lenin the icon: A 1929 Laz language newspaper featuring Lenin's writing.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mcita_murutsxi_s.jpg "Lenin the icon: A 1929 Laz language newspaper featuring Lenin's writing.")
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![[Lenin in 1923.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_last_photo_s.jpg "Lenin in 1923.")
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![[During Lenin’s sickness , Stalin used this altered photograph as his bona fides'' claim to leading the CPSU]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_and_stalin_crop_s.jpg "During Lenin’s sickness , Stalin used this altered photograph as his bona fides'' claim to leading the CPSU")
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![["Volodya", aged three.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Lenin_Age_4_s.jpg "\"Volodya\", aged three.")
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