Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russia

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n Marxist revolutionary

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 and communist politician

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 who led the October Revolution of 1917

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. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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 and worked to create a socialist

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 economic system.

As a politician, Lenin was a persuasive orator, as a political scientist

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 his extensive theoretic and philosophical

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 developments of Marxism

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 produced Marxism–Leninism

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, the pragmatic Russian

Soviet Union

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 application of Marxism.
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov on in the town of Simbirsk in the Russian Empire

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