Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (later known as Lenin as he solely nicknamed himself) was one of the leading political figures in the course of the 20th century. He was the revolutionary thinker behind the USSR idea (a.k.a. The Great Soviet Union), fought to materialize it and masterminded the Bolshevik bloody takeover of power in Russia after World War One. Although Lenin's reign as the head of the newly created Soviet Union was extraordinarily his influence stretched throughout the 20th century.
====Lenin’s Early Life====
[[File:Lenin-circa-1887.jpg|thumbnail|220px|left|Vladimir Lenin in 1887]]
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on 22 April 1870 in Simbirsk on the Volga River into a well-educated family. Once he He excelled at school, he and chose to pursue a law studies and career. However, later in while he was at university, angered and influenced by the cruel public execution of his brother (being a member of a revolutionary group himself) at the hands of the ruling Tsarist regime, Lenin became far more radical in his thinking.<ref>Lenin’s older brother - Aleksandr Ulyanov, was involved with “Narodovoltsy” – a revolutionary terrorist society and in 1891 he was arrested and executed for taking part in an assassination plot against Tsar Alexander III.</ref> That event, together His brother's execution radicalized Vladimir. He turned his anger towards =the ruling Tsarist regime. His brother's execution along with his father’s death, marked a turning point in young Lenin’s his life and broadly determined shaped his path of in the future revolutionary we know today.
Shortly Soon after these critical eventshis brother execution, Lenin was expelled from the university for his active participation in student protests against Tsarist regime and . He was forced to continue his law studies as an external student at St. Petersburg University. Around that this time he also became passionately interested in Karl Marx’s works. Unsurprisingly, even before concluding his education, young Lenin He joined the Marxists groups at the age of when he was 21 as to become and in essence became a professional revolutionary. Lenin quickly got became involved with various Marxist societies and radical groups and even published several his writings of his ownon politics and Marxism. Almost all of them his writing were immediately banned and restricted by the ruling Tsarist regime, declared illegal and . The only way to get a hold of his writings was to passed them by hand from hand person to handperson. And because he His writings quickly caught the eye of the other Russian radicals, Lenin and he was declared an “enemy of the state” by the Russian police. He was mercilessly chased arrested by the Tsarists police in St. Petersburg and imprisoned for a year for sedition. After his release, he was again arrested in 1897 for his radical views and ideas and soon he was arrested sent to exile in Siberia for 3 years. Lenin and exiled family were sent to Siberiawhere he lived in Shushenskoye. During his Siberian exile , Vladimir adopted the famous “Lenin” pseudonym himself – the nick-name he’s become best known for<ref>Throughout moniker “Lenin.” While in Siberia, Lenin wrote constantly with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. His exile did little to damper his life Lenin often used many different pseudonyms for work or for security reasons</ref>revolutionary zeal.
==Lenin - the Young Revolutionary==
