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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) was the leader of the Bolsheviks during the Bolshevik Revolution. Lenin was considered a threat to the Tsarist monarchy for his Marxist view of government; his belief in Russia becoming a Communist nation led him to be exiled to Siberia more than once. However, hoping to distract Russia from fighting against them in World War I, Germany purposefully sent Lenin back to Russia to stir up turmoil within the country. Germany's plan succeeded; Russia had to remove itself from the war. (Russia and Germany concluded their war against each other with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).

In 1922 Vladimir Lenin led the Communist Party in the creation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He studied the Communist Manifesto and decided that communism was the way to lead Russia into an economical, political, and social stand-still of stability. He was not a communist radical, such as Stalin, and did not endite [I can't tell what this word was supposed to be ] a command economy, but rather had a relaxed Marxism in which there was a little room for capitalism. It has been argued that his then New Economic Plan was a form of socialism, in which case it was. The peasants of the USSR were no longer required to give up their entire livestock and harvest, allowing them to make a profit off of what they had leftover. Lenin had strove to improve Russia for the better of the country, but the taxing consequences of the job lead him to fall mentally and physically ill before relinquishing his empire to Joseph Stalin, a mistake he regretted. Lenin is to this day remembered as a hero among Russians and can be seen in almost every single Russian propaganda poster.