[len-in; Russ. lye-nyin] 
V(la⋅di⋅mir) I(l⋅yich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich; Russ. vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] , (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; “N. Lenin” ), 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24. |
| Le·nin (lěn'ĭn) 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. |