Vladimir Lenin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 21, 1870
- Died
- January 21, 1924 (aged 53)
- Birthplace
- Simbirsk
Biography
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
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Filmography
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
USSR (1917-1991)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Aurora's Sunrise
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Stones in Cold Water
Movie · as Self (archival footage)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
Movie · as (archival footage)
A History of Antisemitism
TV · as Self - Politician (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Anarchists
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Century of Icons
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The UnXplained
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
Movie · as Self
The Russian Revolution
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
Movie
Europa: The Last Battle
TV · 5 eps
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
The Chosen
Movie · as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Laissez-faire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Movie · as Self
Apocalypse: Stalin
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Ленин
TV · as Vladimir Iljič Lenin · 2 eps
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
Movie · as Himself
My boy, look at the stars
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Doomsday: World War I
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Reagan
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
Movie · as Self - archive footage
Stalin: Man of Steel
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Mausoleum
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Human Remains
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
TV · 1 ep
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
100 years of social democracy 1894-1994
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bukharin and the Terror
Movie
American Experience
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Lenin on the Yenisei
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
TV · as Self (archiveFootage) · 27 eps
The Man Mayakovsky
Movie · as (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
Movie · as Archive footage
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Union: A New Look
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Caudillo
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie · as himself (archive footage)
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Beginning
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lenin
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Guns of August
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Él mismo (material de archivo)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Our Cinema
Movie · as (archive footage)
Maxim Gorky
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tsar to Lenin
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
Movie
Three Songs About Lenin
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Movie · as Himself (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Movie · as Self
Anniversary of the Revolution
Movie · as Self - Politician