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Le·nin    Audio Help   [len-in; Russ. lye-nyin] Pronunciation Key
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V(la·di·mir) I(l·yich)    Audio Help   [vlad-uh-meer il-yich; Russ. vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] Pronunciation Key, (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; “N. Lenin”), 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24.
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Le·nin    Audio Help   (lěn'ĭn)  Pronunciation Key 
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks, leader of the Russian Revolution (1917), and first head of the USSR (1917-1924). As a communist theoretician Lenin held that workers could not develop a revolutionary consciousness without the guidance of a vanguard party and that imperialism was a particular stage of capitalist development.

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lenin

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Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) 

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Lenin [(len-in)]

A Russian revolutionary leader of the early twentieth century, highly honored in the former Soviet Union as the founder of the modern Soviet state. Lenin, a founder of the Bolshevik party, contributed much to the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin held that a dedicated group of intellectuals had to spearhead the revolution. He became chief of government of the Soviet Union after the revolution and served until his death in 1924. Joseph Stalin succeeded him. Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.


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