Lenin played an active role is trying to end the power of the Russian Orthodox Church. His reign of terror saw the destruction of churches and the killing of priests, monks and nuns. The Orthodox Church was declared illegal under the Communist regime and a systematic campaign of persecution and killings took place under Lenin and the other Communist leaders. Millions of Orthodox people were killed during the 70 years of Communism in Russia.
The Russian nobility was a group thatarose in the 14th century and essentially governedRussia until the October Revolution of 1917. As in other countries, nobility was a status, a social category, but not a title.
Vladimir Lenin, head of the Bolshevik Party promised this to the Russian people to get them to support his cause.
Lenin inspired the Russian Revolution of 1917.Lenin
The army supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks, because they were tired of the war against Germany (WW1). Lenin had a small group of intellectuals and revolutionaries who spearheaded the revolution. The peasantry was split in its support between Lenin and the old regime, so there was a Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1923. The communists won.
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Lenin was part Mongol, Jewish, Swedish and German. He was not Russian at all as far as ancestry goes.
The Russian Revolution as well as the Russian Civil War were both concluded successfully by the time Lenin died in 1924.
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
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