Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary and political theorist who became the first leader of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.
As head of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Lenin played a pivotal role in the 1917 October Revolution.
He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 and of the Soviet Union from its formation in 1922 until his death in 1924.
Lenin's political and economic theories, known as Leninism, built upon Marxist ideas and significantly influenced the international communist movement.
His leadership transformed Russia into the world's first socialist state and laid the foundation for the Soviet Union's emergence as a global superpower.
