Vladimir Lenin IND- William Kelly

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinking figures in the world. He masterminded the Bolshevik takeover in Russia in 1917 and was the first architect and head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on April 22, 1870. He was born into a wealthy family which led to his going to a university. While at the university studying law he was exposed to his famous radical thinking. Later on he would be expelled from the university for his way of thinking. Lenin introduced the Socialist Model of Economy and the New Economic policy to the Russian/Soviet people. In 1918 he narrowly suffered an assassination attempt and was severely injured which would affect his long term health. He suffered a stroke in 1922 and worried about his eventual successors increasing power, Joseph Stalin. Lenin died on January 24^th 1924. His body was embalmed and placed in mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.