Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born on April 10th, 1870 in Simbirsk (later named Ulyanovsk in his honor), Russia. He later …show more content…
Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, as well as the architect, builder, and first head of the Soviet Union. In 1904 Russia went to war with Japan. Russia had a number of defeats and it put damage on the country’s national budget. The problem was intensified on January 9, 1905, when a group of unarmed workers in St. Petersburg took their concerns directly to the city’s palace to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas the second. They were met by security forces, who fired on the group, killing and wounding hundreds. The crisis set the stage for what would called the Russian Revolution of 1905. Lenin was far from satisfied. His frustrations extended to his fellow Marxists, in particular the group calling itself the Mensheviks, led by Julius Martov. The party’s idea and structure was built around wanting to fully seize control of Russia. From the Mensheviks’ point of view, however, Lenin’s ideas really paved the way for a one-man dictatorship over people he claimed he wanted to empower. The two groups had argued since party’s Second Congress, which has handed Lenin’s group, known as the Bolsheviks, a slim majority. The fighting would continue until a 1912 party conference in Prague, when Lenin formally split to create a new separate entity. During World War 1Lenin went into exile again, this time taking up residence in Switzerland. As always, his mind stayed focus on revolutionary politics. During this period, he wrote and published Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), a defining work for the future leader, in which he argued that war was the natural result of international capitalism. During this time, he was able to avoid several assassinations attempts on him. Lenin later dies on January 21st, 1924 from intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) in Gorki Leninskiye,