Vladimir Lenin and The Leningrad Oblast
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин (help·info); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), HP Pavilion dv7 Battery
as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
As a politician, 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 MarxismHP Pavilion dv7-1000 Battery.[1]
Early life and background
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ульянов) on 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 in the town of Simbirsk in the Russian Empire. Simbirsk, a rural town on the River Volga nearly 1,500 miles from the capital Saint Petersburg, HP Pavilion dv7-1000ea Batterywould be renamed upon Ulyanov’s death fifty-four years later as “Ulyanovsk” in his honour. That same year, Saint Petersburg itself would be renamed Leningrad after Ulyanov’s better-known cadre name.
“Volodya”, aged three
Lenin’s parents were Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, HP Pavilion dv7-1000ef Battery a schoolteacher, and Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, a government education official. Lenin was baptised on 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1870 at the local church of St. Nicholas into the Russian Orthodox Church.[2](p4)[3](p35)
Lenin came from a diverse ancestry. HP Pavilion dv7-1000eg Battery He was of Christian Russian, Tatar, German, and Swedish descent, while his maternal grandfather may have descended from the Jewish Blank family.[4] Lenin is also believed to have had Kalmyk ancestry on his father’s side.[5][6]
Lenin was born into a comfortable middle-class family. HP Pavilion dv7-1000fr BatteryLenin’s father Ilya was elevated into the Russian nobility for his work in the government bureaucracy, and, after being appointed director of Simbirsk’s primary schools in 1874, was entitled to wear a blue gold-embroidered uniform and be addressed as “Your Excellency”.[7] Although later Soviet biographies tried to disguise his background, HP Pavilion dv7-1001ea Battery Lenin himself never made any effort to hide the fact that he was a nobleman by birth.[5] Lenin argued explicitly in one of his most famous works What Is To Be Done? that intellectuals from “bourgeois” backgrounds have a vital revolutionary role to play bringing political ideas to the working-class movement: “By their social status the founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.” HP Pavilion dv7-1001ef Battery [8]
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