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Vladimir lenin biography for kids

For the musician, see John Lennon.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as better known as Vladimir Lenin, (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russianlawyer, revolutionary, and the leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution.

He was the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917. Lenin's ideas became known as Leninism.

Biography

Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on 22 April 1870.

As a child, he was known as Volodya the common nickname variant of Vladimir.

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He was the third of eight children. His father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, came from a family of former serfs. Despite a lower-class background, he had risen to middle-class status, studying physics and mathematics at Kazan University before teaching at the Penza Institute for the Nobility.

In mid-1863, Ilya married Maria, the well-educated daughter of a wealthy Swedish Lutheran mother