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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating …
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
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Vladimir Lenin's Filmography
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No Poster
The Mummy
as Self (archive footage)
USSR (1917-1991)
as Self (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
as Self (archive footage)
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
as Self (archive footage)
Stones in Cold Water
as Self (archival footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
as (archival footage)
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
No Poster
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
as Self
Karl Marx und seine Erben
as Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Russian Revolution
as Self (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
as Himself (archive footage)
The Chosen
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
as Self (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
as Self (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
as Himself
My boy, look at the stars
as Self (archive footage)
Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
as Self - archive footage
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
as Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin: Man of Steel
as Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mausoleum
as Self (archive footage)
Human Remains
as Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
as Self (archive footage)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
as Self (archive footage)
100 years of social democracy 1894-1994
as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
as Self (archive footage)
Bukharin and the Terror
The Man Mayakovsky
as (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
as Archive footage
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Union: A New Look
as Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Caudillo
as Himself (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
as himself (archive footage)
No Poster
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Beginning
Lenin
as Self (archive footage)
The Guns of August
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
as Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia
as Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
as Self (archive footage)
Our Cinema
as (archive footage)
Maxim Gorky
as Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
as Self (archive footage)
Tsar to Lenin
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
Three Songs About Lenin
as Self (archive footage)
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
as Self (archive footage)
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
as Himself (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
as Self
Anniversary of the Revolution
as Self - Politician