Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born on April 10 (April 22 in New Style), 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia. Simbirsk was later named Ulyanovsk in his honor. He got the last name “Lenin,” by working in an underground party.1 His father, Ilia Nikolaevich Ulyanov, was a high official in the city’s educational …show more content…
Petersburg, Russia he was a believer in marxism. Marxism is the idea of the overthrow of a government by the people, usually the poor or lower class. Leninism is ideas where everyone is equal but needs a group of leaders to lead them, and communism needs to take place all around the world.11 Then they create a whole new system of government. Marxism-Leninism is the ideas of Lenin and Karl Marx together.4 This radical theory had a lot of impact to Russia/ Soviet Union. It changed a lot of views and basically helped start communism in my opinion. Because of his radical views he and his other conspirators was arrested for a year then he was exiled to Siberia for three …show more content…
There was an attempted assassination of Lenin on August 30, 1918. He was shot at three times but only two bullets actually hit him. One in the neck and one in the jaw. The gunman was a Socialist Revolutionary who was then executed for the attempt. The stress of the revolutions and the injuries he sustained provoked his first stroke, which cut off his speaking and affected his movement. When he had his second stroke, he quit everything and moved away. Joseph Stalin was a frequent visitor to help him relearn how to speak and write. His death was an interesting one. He had his third and final stroke in March of 1923, he was completely bedridden and the pain was unbearable. He begged Stalin to poison him and to end his life. He knew that Stalin would do it because he is ruthless. He died on January 24, 1924. His brain was taken out of his body and preserved for two years. After that they sliced it up and studied how a genius’ mind works. Vladimir Lenin was buried in Moscow’s Red