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Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyaov, Lenin was the chairman of the soviet government, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution; a Russian revolutionary communist politician. He was born on April 10th, 1870, in Ulyanovsk. When he was only 16, his father died, and the next year his elder brother, Alexander, was executed because he was part of a conspiracy to assassinate the Tsar. For the next two years after that, he was in Kazan State University, studying law and Marxism. He switched to the University of Saint Petersburg, but continued studying the books of other Russian revolutionaries. In 1892, he got a license to practice law. The year after that, he joined a Marxist group. By 1895, Lenin wanted to start an illegal newspaper called Rabochye Delo, but got arrested and was in jail for fourteen months. Then he got exiled into Siberia, where he met a bunch of famous Marxists. He got married in July of 1898 to Nadezhda Krupskaya, and wrote a book, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, which was published the year after. As the 20th century began, his exile in Siberia finished and he went to live in Pskov. But then seven months later, he moved to Europe and in December printed the first issue of his newspaper, called Iskra; his wife came and joined him in May 1901. December of that year, Vladimir started using the name “Lenin,” and started writing his next book, to be published the following year; What is to be Done?, which was about his revolutionary tactics. In 1898, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party started- in 1903, they'd their second congress and split into Bolsheviks (majority) and Mensheviks (minority). Lenin had to stop printing Iskra, but two years later he started another paper, Vyperod. Also in 1905, there was the third congress of the RSDLP, but the Mensheviks, disagreeing with the Bolsheviks, didn’t come. After that, in 1906, Lenin got elected presidium of the RSDLP. In 1908, Lenin moved to Geneva. There he finished another book, Materialism and Empiriocriticism. After that, he moved to Paris, France. There was the fifth congress of the RSDLP, and Lenin got elected again. In 1912, at the Prague Conference, the Bolsheviks (Lenin and all of his supporters, mainly) announced themselves as an autonomous political party. In 1914, World War I started- Germany declared war on Russia. Lenin had to leave, and went to Berne, in Switzerland. Lenin wrote a book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, in 1916. During 1917, the Tsar Nicholas II gave up his power, and the Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky was made. The Provisional Government was a government kind of like the one in US, and they were keeping Russia in World War I, which wasn't what most Russians wanted. Lenin got to Petrograd with his party; they'd to go through Germany in a closed train. Then Lenin wrote the April Theses, saying that they should get rid of the Provisional Government. In July, Lenin was forced into hiding once again and went to Finland. Later that month, the RSDLP congress made Lenin their chairman. Secretly, he came back from Finland, and told them they should have an immediate open revolt, but a lot of the Bolsheviks disagreed. Soon after, though, the Bolsheviks changed their minds and had a revolution. They got rid of the Provisional Government, and the power went to the workers soviets (councils). They formed the Soviet Government, and Lenin was chairman. The year after, the Soviet Government was changed to Moscow- Lenin went with them. Fanny Kaplan tried to kill Lenin, and he was hurt, but he survived, although he'd a bullet in his neck which he didn’t take out. In 1919, Comintern, which was the communist international formed to help revolutions around the globe, was founded. In March of 1921, the NEP (New Economic Policy) began, the agreement Lenin made to use some of the laws of capitalism, because the US was making it impossible for many Russians to get food and thousands were dying. Furthermore, the NEP was necessary because there was a civil war going on in the Soviet Union between the Mensheviki (Whites), who were counter-revolutionary and backed by the US, and the Bolshevik government (Reds), which was new. In 1922 Lenin had the first in a series of four strokes, as well as his last speech. He had his second stroke in December, and he began a bunch of letters which are known as his Last Testament, which he finished in 1923. In March of that year, he'd the third stroke and lost the power of speech. These strokes could possibly be directly connected to Fanny Kaplan’s assassination attempt. The bullet she fired was lodged near his spine, and the medical technology of that time wasn't advanced enough to be able to remove it. It is very likely that that bullet was the cause of Lenin’s strokes. So it would appear that, essentially, the assassination attempt wasn't a failure- it took longer than expected, but it was probably why he died. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died on January 21st, 1924 from his fourth stroke.

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