russian revolutionary and political theoretician, one of the leaders of the russian Bolshevik party since its establishment in 1903. he was the creator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and headed its first government.

Lenin, originally named Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was born in 1870 and was confined to revolutionary struggle from an early age. Lenin's father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, was a teacher who became director of schools in Simbirsk province. lenins mother, Maria Aleksandrovna Blank, was the daughter of a doctor. She was an educated woman and was deeply devoted to her children. His elder brother was hanged for the attempted assassination of Czar Alexander III.

Lenin enrolled in the Kazan' University, but was expelled as a radical troublemaker and exiled to his grandfather's estate. In 1891 he passed his Law exam with high honors, where he took up to representing the poorest peasantry in Samara. After moving to St. Petersburg in 1893, Lenin's experience with the oppression of the peasantry in Russia, coupled with the revolutionary teachings of Plekhanov, guided Lenin to meet with revolutionary groups. In April 1895, his comrades helped send Lenin abroad to get up to speed with the revolutionary movement in Europe, and to meet the Emancipation of Labour Group. After five months abroad, traveling from Switzerland to France to Germany, working at libraries and newspapers to make his way, Lenin returned to Russia, carrying a brief case with a false bottom, full of Marxist literature. He gained political stature through his writings.

On returning to Russia, Lenin and Martov created the League for the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. The group supported strikes and union activity and taught in workers education groups. The police soon arrested the leaders of this organization and Lenin was sentenced to fifteen years in jail. There he met Nadezhda Krupskaya, later to become his wife. Lenin went into Siberian exile until 1900 along with his wife. There, he became a leading member of the peasant community. Both he and his wife worked together on party organizing. Finally, after his term of exile ends. Lenin emigrated to Munich, and was soon joined by his wife. Lenin created Iskra, in efforts to bring together the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, which had been scattered after the police persecution of the first congress of the party in 1898.

After leading the October Revolution, Lenin served as the first and only chairman of the R.

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R. The first Soviet leader hoped the revolution would set off other socialist revolts in Western countries. In 1919 Lenin founded the Communist International and later instituted the NEP.

During 1922 Lenin suffered a series of strokes that prevented active work in government. While in his final year, Lenin wrote his last articles where he outlined a program to fight against the bureaucratization of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. After his death in 1924, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honor. Lenin's body was preserved and buried in the Kremlin, moscow.

Richey Edwards said about this song (revol, or: 'lover' when read backwards): 'All those lines like 'Brezhnev married into group sex' are just analogies really. It's trying to say that relationships in politics, and relationships in general, are failures.'a picture of the body of lenin, lying in his mausoleum in moscow, was printed under the lyrics of revol in the booklet of the holy bible.see also: "when freedom exists there will be no state."
"when we are victorious on a world scale..."