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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.