Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) as well as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR or Soviet Union).
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir I. Lenin founded the Bolshevik Party in 1903.
Russia (USSR). He is widely regarded as the founder of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Lenin was more important by far. Lenin was the founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party, which eventually took over the country and set up the new socialist government. Trotsky was not even a member of the Bolshevik Party until shortly before the revolution. Trotsky became more of a right hand man to Lenin during the revolution and afterwords but he was never above Lenin in leadership.
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Vladimir Lenin was the first leader of the Communist Party. He had been the founder and leader of the Bolshevik Party since 1903 and remained so when the Bolshevik Party officially changed its name to the Communist Party in March 1918.
It is a name sometimes used for Vladimiir Ilitch Ulyanov, founder of Soviet communism, etc. Zinoviev gave a speech entitled "Nicolai Lenin: HIs Life and Work" at the Pertograd Soviet on 9/6/1918; do an Internet search and you can get a PDF of it. But near as I can tell (quick skim) he is referred to as Vladimir Ilitch of Comrade Lenin throughout. Perhaps "Nicolai" is considered a translation of "Vladimir"
Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov was the name given to Vladimir Lenin when he was born on April 22, 1870. He adopted the last name Lenin while doing underground party work in 1901.Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the first leader of the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Vladimir I. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party ever since its beginning at the Party Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Brussels in 1903. He remained its leader till his death in 1924.The leader of the Bolsheviks, was Vladimir Lenin, and co leader was Leon Trotsky. This changed dramatically upon the sudden death of Lenin in 1924.Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party and the one who organized the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. He is the first leader of the Soviet Union.
Lenin's body was put on display in a mausoleum in Moscow primarily to serve as a symbol and a rallying point for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was part of an effort to maintain the cult of personality around Lenin and to reinforce the ideology of communism. Additionally, it was seen as a way to honor and venerate Lenin as the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and the founder of the Soviet state.
Vladimir Lenin was an atheist, he did not believe in God.
Lenin's body.