Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Aka Lenin

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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 and he would live until the age of 53 when his death was recorded as a incurable disease of the blood vessels. As a young boy Lenin would develop a hatred toward the tsarist gov. due to he loved brother being executed for planning to kill the tsar. Lenin would read the works of Karl Marx growing up and would spread Marxist ideas. Lenin adapted Marxist ideas to fit Russian conditions. Marx had predicted that one day the working class would eventually overthrow capitalism, so Lenin created an elite revolutionary group named the Bolsheviks meaning majority.

When World War One broke loose the Tsars would rule Russia until near the end of the war when the whole Romanov Dynasty ended

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