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Officially, Lenin ruled from about October 25, 1917 (Julian calendar) to his death on January 21, 1924. In fact after having a stroke in 1922, he was virtually incapable of governing practically throughout the entire year of 1923. He was wheelchair bound, could not speak and had lost virtually all political power within the Communist Party.

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Strictly speaking, Lenin never ruled the USSR. After the October Revolution, Russia became the "Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic" (RSFSR). On December 29, 1922, the Communist Parties of the RSFSR, the Ukraine, Belorussia and Transcaucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) signed articles of union to formally associate the four republics into one union. The Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was ratified on January 31, 1924.

By the time the USSR had been officially constituted, Lenin had had several serious debilitating strokes and by March 1923 was essentially confined to a wheelchair unable to speak or write. During Lenin's disability the RSFSR and then the USSR was run by the troika of Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev until Lenin died on January 21, 1924.

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Vladimir Lenin was in control of Russia from the beginning of the revolution in 1917 until his sudden death in 1924.

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