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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.As a politician, Lenin was a persuasive...

Timeline of Events

1917

4.3.1917

Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.

4.16.1917

Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.

11.8.1917

The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

1918

8.30.1918

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.