The name has no specific meaning. It is thought that it comes from the River Lena, which flows through Siberia. Lenin had been exiled there from 1897 to 1900. He began using the name in 1901.
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
Lenin's party was called the Bolsheviks, meaning majorityites, which was one faction of the Russian Marxist party. The other faction was called the Mensheviks, meaning minorityites. The irony is that there were more Mensheviks than Bolsheviks in the Marxist party, but Lenin chose that name for his faction because it held a temporary majority of one vote for a brief period of time. It was a huge psychological advantage over the other faction.
Lenin had written What Is To Be Done? around 1901-1902. It is named after Nikolai Chernyshevsky's book of the same name.
Lenin represented the Bolsheviks. After they succeeded in the Revolution, they changed their name to Communists.
Lenin's plan was called the New Economic Policy. It reintroduced some aspects of capitalism into the socialist system Lenin had imposed on the country.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was the real name of the Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. He adopted Lenin as his last name. Lenin was not a nickname. He was also referred to as Nikolai Lenin by close associates.
Lenin's first name was Vladimir. He was also called Nikolai at times after he adopted the name Lenin.
Lenin was his last name. Vladimir was his first name.
Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov on April 22, 1870, he took on the pseudonym of "Lenin" in 1901 following his Siberian exile for attempting to publish an illegal newspaper called *The Workers Cause*. The pseudonym of Lenin which he chose for himself was fashioned from the name of the river Lena in Siberia. The name of the river itself is believed to have been derived from the original name of "Elyu-Ene", meaning "large river".
Lenin's wife's name was Nadezhda Konstaninovna Krupskaya
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
Mikhail Lenin's birth name is Mikhail Ignatyuk.
It was the real name of Vladimir Lenin, who was also known as Nikolai Lenin.
Lenin's speech at the train station was the April Thesis
Lenin was his last name. Vladimir was his first name.
Vladimir Lenin's name was chosen by himself; "Lenin" was a pseudonym he adopted in 1901 during his underground revolutionary activities. "Vladimir" is his given name.
Lenin created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Soviet Union.