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Trivia

  • Used over 100 aliases during his lifetime. []
  • Lenin stood only 5 feet, 5 inches tall. []
  • According to recent uncovered archives, Lenin personally ordered the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. []
  • Lenin's brain was removed before his body was embalmed so that neuroscientists could study it. []
  • Lenin stated on numerous occasions that he wanted no memorials created for him but by the 1980's nearly every major city in the Soviet Union had a statue of him located somewhere in their environs. []
  • In Lenin's Last Testament, he criticized underling Joseph Stalin and recommended Stalin's removal from all Communist party positions. But because this document also criticized other influential Communists such as Trotsky and Zinoviev it was suppressed. []
  • Lenin's embalmed and preserved body is on permanent display at the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow. []
  • The city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in Lenin's honor after his death. The city has since reverted to its original name--St. Petersburg. It was renamed after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. []
  • In March of 1923, Lenin suffered a third stroke which left him bedridden and unable to speak for the remainder of his life. []
  • Lenin resigned from active politics after suffering a stroke in December of 1922. []
  • In 1921, Lenin implemented the New Economic Policy (NEP) in an attempt to rebuild the Soviet Union's shattered industry and agriculture which had been devastated during the Russian Civil War. []
  • Lenin, though a critic of imperialism, practiced it himself when he had Soviet armies conquer the newly independent nations of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. []
  • Lenin's attempted assassin, Fany Kaplan, was shot on September 4, 1918 without ever revealing whether she had plotted with others. []
  • On August 30, 1918, a woman named Fany Kaplan shot Lenin three times. None of the bullets were ever removed from Lenin's body for fear of endangering him further but he managed to make a recovery. []
  • Lenin created a secret police force, the Cheka, in order to protect his government against political opponents. []
  • In March of 1918, Lenin's government pulled Russia out of World War I by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. []
  • Lenin and his Bolsheviks seized power from the provisional Russian government headed by Alexander Kerensky in October of 1917. []
  • Lenin's Siberian exile ended in 1900. Afterwards, he left Russia and traveled widely in Europe. []
  • In December of 1895, Lenin was exiled to Siberia due to engaging in revolutionary activities against the Tsarist government. []
  • Sometime around 1891, Lenin obtained a license to practice law but rarely took cases preferring to engage in anti-government activities. []
  • Lenin briefly attended Kazan University bot got himself expelled. []
  • In 1887, Lenin's older brother, Alexander Ulyanov, was hung for participation in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. []
  • Lenin described his theories of "Leninism" as an adaptation of Marxism to the age of imperialism. []
  • The German government sent Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, to Russia in a sealed train in 1917 with the hopes that he would incite revolution in that country and knock them out of the war against Germany. The German emperor was sure not to allow Lenin out loose in his country to spark his own rebellion in Germany. []
  • It was always rumored among Communist Party circles that Joseph Stalin poisoned Lenin so that he could seize power for himself. []
  • After a power struggle among his heirs, Lenin would be succeeded as head of the Soviet government by Joseph Stalin. []
  • Lenin was from the same hometown as Alexander Kerensky, the man who headed the Russian government that Lenin's Bolsheviks overthrew. Kerensky's father had been Lenin's school principal. []
  • He married Nadezhda Krupskaya in July 1898. []
  • His father died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1886. []
  • He attended Kazan University, in Tatarstan, Russia, until he was expelled. []
  • He had Russian, Kalmyk, Volga German and Jewish ancestry. []
  • He was the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. []
  • He was the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Communist Party. []
  • He was the son of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov. []

Quotes

  • Lenin: If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. []
  • Lenin: A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. []
  • Lenin: A lie told often enough becomes the truth. []
  • Lenin: While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no State. []
  • Lenin: Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this. []
  • Lenin: Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. []
  • Lenin: No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. []
  • Lenin: One man with a gun can control 100 without one. []
  • Lenin: Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. []
  • Lenin: The goal of socialism is communism. []
  • Lenin: It is true that liberty is precious--so precious that it must be rationed. []
  • Lenin: There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. []
  • Lenin: Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. []
  • Lenin: The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. []
  • Lenin: The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. []
  • Lenin: It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. []
  • Lenin: Sometimes history needs a push. []

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