Lenin
October Revolution leader
Lenin refers to Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), the Russian revolutionary and political theorist who led the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and became the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His ideas, called Leninism, adapted Marxist theory to emphasize a vanguard party leading the working class to revolution.
Lenin remains a towering figure in communist history, and his embalmed body is still displayed in Moscow's Red Square.
The protesters toppled the statue of Lenin.
Lenin's revolutionary party
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
- Tsar NicholasImperial Russian ruler
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
Civil War · Winter Palace · Aurora · insurrection · seizure of power · Red Guards · counterrevolution · White Army
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- BolshevismLenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
bourgeoisie · class struggle · imperialism · revolution · anti-capitalism · internationalism · collectivism · state capitalism
Former communist superpower
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- PetrogradRussian city name, 1914-24
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
Comintern · Cheka · Red Square · Pravda · central committee · commissar · nationalization · Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Monumental building for interment
- embalmedPreserved a corpse chemically
- cult of personalityExcessive veneration of leader
- LeningradFormer Soviet city name
- statuesThree-dimensional sculpted likenesses
October · propaganda · iconography · hammer and sickle · red star · veneration · successor · Stalin
Bolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
- Tsar NicholasImperial Russian ruler
Red Army · Civil War · Winter Palace · Aurora · insurrection · seizure of power · Red Guards · counterrevolution · White Army · Mensheviks
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- BolshevismLenin's revolutionary communist ideology
- socialismCommunal economic control
proletariat · bourgeoisie · class struggle · imperialism · revolution · anti-capitalism · internationalism · collectivism · state capitalism
USSR
Former communist superpower
- KremlinMoscow's fortified government seat
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- PetrogradRussian city name, 1914-24
Soviet Union · Comintern · Cheka · Red Square · Pravda · central committee · commissar · nationalization · Treaty of Brest-Litovsk · electrification
mausoleum
Monumental building for interment
- embalmedPreserved a corpse chemically
- cult of personalityExcessive veneration of leader
- LeningradFormer Soviet city name
statues · October · propaganda · iconography · hammer and sickle · red star · veneration · successor · Stalin · testament
pamphlet
Unbound topical booklet
- theoryExplanatory set of principles
- agitationDisturbed, restless state
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- World LeadersChurchill, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev, Thatcher
- communismMarx, Marxism, proletariat, Engels, Stalinism
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Tsarist Russia, Romanov, czars
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet lifecommunal apartments, communal living, collective farms, Pravda, May Day
- Soviet UnionKremlin, Stalin, KGB, Sputnik, gulag
LeninAdam Smith
Classical economics founder
Milton Friedman · Ayn Rand · Margaret Thatcher · Ronald Reagan · Pinochet
LeninTsar Nicholas II
Final Romanov ruler
Nicholas II · Tsar · monarchist · royalist · autocrat
LeninMahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr. · Nelson Mandela · pacifist · Tolstoy · Dalai Lama
- Vladimir LeninFirst Soviet premier
- Lenin's TombSoviet leader's preserved resting place