Vladimir Lenin: Difference between revisions

'''Vladimir Ilyich Lenin''' was a Russian [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Communists communist] revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Politically a Marxist, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism, which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism–Leninism.

===Childhood: 1870–1887===

Lenin's father, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Nikolayevich_Ulyanov Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov] (1831–1886), was the fourth child of impoverished tailor Nikolai Vassilievich Ulyanov – born a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom serf] of either [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyk_people Kalmyk] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatars Tatar] descent – and a far younger Kalmyk named Anna Alexeevna Smirnova, who lived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrakhan Astrakhan]. Ilya escaped poverty by studying physics and mathematics at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_%28Volga_region%29_Federal_University University of Kazan], before gaining a teaching job at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Nobles Penza Institute for the Nobility] in 1854. Introduced to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Alexandrovna_Ulyanova Maria Alexandrovna Blank] (1835–1916), they married in the summer of 1863.From a relatively prosperous background, Mariya was the daughter of a Russian-Jewish physician, Alexander Dmitrievich Blank, and his German-Swedish wife, Anna Ivanovna Grosschopf. Dr Blank had insisted on providing his children with a good education, ensuring that Mariya learned Russian, German, English and French, and that she was well versed in Russian literature.Soon after their wedding, Ilya obtained a job in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhni_Novgorod Nizhni Novgorod], rising to become Director of Primary Schools in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbirsk Simbirsk] district six years later. Five years after that, he was promoted to Director of Public Schools for the province, overseeing the foundation of over 450 schools as a part of the government's plans for modernisation. Awarded the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Vladimir Order of St. Vladimir], he became a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_nobility hereditary nobleman].