Labels:text | man | human face | person | screenshot OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Lenin was the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution, which ended Czarist rule in Russia and created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.). A disciplined intellectual, he continually refined his political theories. On attaining power he revealed a gift for adapting Marxist principles to suit the circumstances of the day. Lenin was a boy when his brother was executed for conspiring to kill the czar. He soon became involved in student politics and began to study the ideas of the German philosopher Karl Marx. During years of exile he pursued his studies and published a torrent of revolutionary literature. After the fall of the Romanov dynasty in March 1917, Lenin returned to Russia and engineered the Bolshevik uprising of November 7. Two days later, he Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian formed the first Bolshevik government, but revolutionary and political leader, before long Russia was torn apart by civil war. 1870-1924 In 1921 Lenin promoted the New Economic Policy, which used market forces to rebuild LLLL LLLL the economy. He was anticipating a return to full socialism when he suffered the first of a series of strokes from which he died. CHRONOLOGY
