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Almost all of his writing were immediately banned and restricted by the Tsarist regime. The only way to get a hold of his writings was to passed them by hand from person to person. His writings quickly caught the eye of other Russian radicals and he was declared an “enemy of the state” by the Russian police. He was arrested by 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 sent to exile in Siberia for 3 years. Lenin and family were sent to Siberia where he lived in Shushenskoye. During his Siberian exile, Vladimir adopted the famous moniker “Lenin.” While in Siberia, Lenin wrote constantly with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. His exile did little to damper his revolutionary zeal.
===Lenin - the Young Revolutionary===
[[File:Vladimir_Lenin_plays_chess_with_Alexander_Bogdanov_during_a_visit_to_Maxim_Gorky_(April_,10_(23)_-_April,_17_(30)_1908).jpg|thumbnail|325px|left|Vladimir Lenin plays chess with Alexander Bogdanov in 1908]]
Once Lenin was released, he continued to passionately work on his views regarding social imbalance and formed the famous Bolsheviks group of supporters – a major faction . The Bolsheviks would become the preeminent party of Russian Marxists, later shaping shaped the whole future Communist Party.<ref>Initially establishing the so-called Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party and later – Communist Party.</ref> The synthesis of Lenin’s views combined together with those of Karl Marx created what we now know as “Marxism-Leninism” or the basis of whole Communist doctrine throughout the 20th century.
His teachings attracted more and more passionate followers and were not popular . Unsurprisingly, he writing unpopular with the Russian authorities at all – he was, after all, against the ruling Tsarist regime and class divisions in society. Vladimir aimed argued in favor at total state ownership of goodsall property, abolishing Tsarists privileges, equal rights for all and lack the elimination of workless personnel - even if that meant going to extremes like poets serving in army or getting involved with peasant workunemployment. As the tension grew, Lenin decided to leave the country for security reasons and move to Western Europe. He spent there most of the subsequent decade and a half and continued 15 in self-imposed exile. After his move to play Eastern Europe, he became a key role also in prominent member of the international revolutionary movement.
Away from Russia , he created his own propaganda means continued to publish and won even more followers on his side. <ref>E.g. He created the published his legendary newspaper “Iskra” (“Spark”) in Munich with the motto “From Spark to Flame!”</ref> Aided by foreign funds, Lenin actively challenged established the established doctrine, policy and institution of the ruling Tsarist regimes. Vladimir quickly learnt, that the real force was within the proletariat – workers, soldiers and peasants – masses who would become his revolution’s weapons and dictatorship’s instruments later.
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