Labels:text | human face | man | clothing | poster | screenshot | gentleman | person OCR: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION KEY PLAYERS Thl OVERVIEW LENIN TROTSKY SOVIET UNION STALIN KEY PLAYERS STALIN'S REIGN VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN (1870-1924) Lenin was the driving force behind the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which established communism in Russia. A Marxist theoretician, he was a superb strategist with a flair for judging the exact moment for revolutionary action. He became head of the first Soviet government. CHRONOLOGY