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Lenin was famous for being the leader of the Marxist revolutionary party known as the Bolsheviks and then orchestrating the October Revolution which overthrew the existing Provisional Government and set up a government controlled by him and the Bolshevik Party, which later renamed itself the Communist Party.

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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist. Lenin was most known for being a leader of a group called Bolsheviks. Lenin started a revolution and overthrew the current government and set up a new one and controlled it. This was called the Communist Party.

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Why was lenin known as the man of steel?

Lenin was not known as "the man of steel." Joseph Stalin was known as that. He adopted the name "Stalin" from the Russian word for steel "stal."


Who are supporters of Vladimir Lenin?

Lenin's supporters were known as Bolsheviks, one faction of the Russian Social Democratic (Marxist) Party.


What did Nikolai Lenin have to do with the Russian Revolution?

Nikolai Lenin, also known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was a leader of the Russian Revolution, and founded the Bolsheviks. Lenin was also the first head of the USSR. Lenin lived for the good of the future, and believed that Communism was the only way to save the future generations from the present. There were two Russian Revolutions in 1917. Nikolai Lenin, properly known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, had virtually nothing to do with the February Revolution of 1917. It occurred without his knowledge while he was living in exile in Switzerland. He returned to Russia on April 3, 1917 and immediately began agitating against the new Provisional Government that had been set up when the Tsar abdicated. His Bolsheviks did everything they could to disrupt and undercut the Provisional Government as well as to organize resistance against it. Eventually he lead the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution.


Who was the Russian Revolutionary leader named Nikolai?

Vladimir Lenin was also known as Nikolai Lenin. He wrote some articles under that name.


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