Vladimir Ilich Lenin was the Russian Communist party leader between 1917 to 1924. Lenin is know to this day to be one of the craziest leaders the Soviet Union ever had and to be the one to start all the terror and revolutions. Lenin is considered to be one of the most influential and controversial political leaders the Soviet Union has ever had. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik party and created the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Lenin later took control as the first leader of the USSR (Service Robert). Lenin was one of six children in his family. Life was not easy for Lenin and there were two instances in his life that shaped him to who is was. One being the death of Lenin’s father and shortly after that in 1987 when Lenin’s older brother was arrested while attending university for planning an assassination on an emperor. Lenin’s brother was sentenced to death. With Lenin’s father recently passing away and his …show more content…
He read many books on revolution including “What Is To Be Done?” by Nikolai Chernyshevsky and also read a lot about Karl Marx (HistoryLearningSite). This had an immense impact on Lenin’s views. Soon later he declared himself a Marxist. Lenin started focusing on revolutionary activities and later went to St. Petersburg to meet other Marxists. The Marxists Lenin met were part of the Liberation of Labour group. This group did not believe that it was possible to overthrow the Russian Government and replace it with peasant communes (John Simkin). In 1985 Lenin created the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class which was a Marxist group in the Russian empire that attempted to get workers to become Marxists. Less than a year later Lenin was arrested for creating the group. He spent a year in prison and then was exiled to Siberia for three years (Service