Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

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Personality

Role

  • Lenin was a determined leader
  • Lenin intended to perpetrate a violent revolution
  • Lenin did not show signs of compassion toward citizens
  • Lenin held very extremist views
  • Lenin studied well and became Valedictorian
  • He led a school protest and was expelled
  • Lenin joined a socialist group and influenced workers
  • He wrote articles to a secret newspaper about anti-Tsar propaganda
  • After repeated jailing and exile, Lenin returned to meet the Red Flag
  • They stormed the Winter Palace and held the Duma at gunpoint
  • Lenin became the immediate leader of the Soviet Union

Development (Growth & change)

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  • To begin, Lenin was a liberal student
  • Lenin became more educated by reading Karl Marx
  • During exile, Lenin hardened and become more communist
  • Lenin's views became extremist, and his popularity decreased
  • Lenin manipulated uneducated lower classes to join the Bolsheviks
  • The Red Flag army grew in size;  Lenin became aggressive
  • Lenin's dictatorship was violent, bloody and unsafe
  • Born: 1870
  • Died: 1924
  • Lenin was born into a financially stable household, the 'Intelligentsia'
  • Lenin's older brother, Alexander, joined a terrorist group to kill Tsar
  • Alexander was caught and executed;  Lenin was 17 years old
  • During his rule, farms became government property
  • Crops were equally divided amongst citizens

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