Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin    (Revolutionary, politician, Lawyer)
Born	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov 1870-04-22 Simbirsk, Russian Empire
Died	1924-01-21 (Age 53) Gorki, Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Parents	• Ilya Ulyanov • (father) • Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova • (mother)
Spouse	Nadezhda Krupskaya
Interest of	Frederick John Partington Veale
Party	League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, (, Bolsheviks, ), Russian Communist Party
Relatives	• Aleksandr Ulyanov • Anna Ulyanova • Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov • Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova • three other siblings
Russian communist revolutionary, a big contributor to later communist ideologies, founded the Soviet Union. Started the "red terror" - a mass campaign of political repression and executing 100.000 to 200.000 political dissidents in 1918.  Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union In office 30 December 1922 - 21 January 1924  Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR In office 8 November 1917 - 21 January 1924  Full member of the Politburo In office 10 October 1917 - 21 January 1924  Full member of the Central Committee In office 3 August 1917 - 21 January 1924  Full member of the Central Committee In office 27 April 1905 - 19 May 1907

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (or in Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917 after which he started a massive campaign of executions of the political and non-political opposition resulting in 100.000 to 200.000 deaths, solidifying his power as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death.

Official narrative

Like most non-elected heads of state of the 1900s, Lenin remains a controversial figure, mostly outside Russia, for his dozens of alleged humans rights abuses. Lenin died in 1924 and also because of the later work of his successor - Joseph Stalin - Lenin escapes modern scrutiny.

Dissidents

Vladimir Lenin brought back forced labor of political prisoners in labor camps from 1918, the "Main Directorate of Camps" internationally now known as GULAG became a system extensively utilized by the Soviet Union. Although Nikita Khrushchev had denounced the system of Soviet totalitarianism these prison camps were a product of after Josef Stalin died, Khrushchev secret speech denouncing it was silenced and prevented from being widely published. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his 1973 book The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation' became the first of an intensive raw and brutal series of insights into the system of these secret sites, which caused it to be picked up by the public, becoming a widely used tool in propaganda by Shin Bet and the US and Russian TV well into the 2000s.. The KGB had confiscated many of Solzhenitsyn's gathered information from 1959 until 1967 and tried to delete all traces of drafts of the book during the Cold war, assassinating several holders of reserve master copies of the book.

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