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@[]##FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS IN PETROGRAD#RUSSIAN TSAR RELINQUISHES THE THRONE@[]#COUP D'ETAT IN PETROGRAD#THE LENIN REVOLUTION#KERENSKY MARCHING ON PETROGRAD##THE CREED OF LENIN@[]#BOLSHEVIST AUTOCRACY SUPREME#PETROGRAD: A FAMISHING CITY#SHOTS FIRED AT LENIN - SERIOUS INJURIES###ANTI-RED MUTINY SPREADS#LENIN DESPONDENT AS RUSSIA STARVES@[]#LENIN, SOVIET LEADER, IS DEAD#LENIN'S IMAGE FALLS FROM GRACE
Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Lenin was an assumed revolutionary alias#As a young radical lawyer he defended peasants and workers in a dozen cases and lost them all#The Germans arranged for Lenin to return to Russia from Switzerland in April 1917 because he denounced Russian participation in the first world war#Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1921. 'Soviet' in Russian means council#The Russians call the Bolshevik coup d'etat in November 1917 'The October Revolution' because it took place at the end of October under the old Russian calendar#The coup made so little popular impression that the trams in Petrograd kept running throughout it#St Petersburg, which had become Petrograd in 1914 because the original name sounded too German, was renamed Leningrad in his honour in 1924. It reverted to St Petersburg in 1991#During the coup, the Bolsheviks forgot to defend their own headquarters, a girls' school called the Smolny Institute#Lenin had a handkerchief wrapped round his jaw, topped by a wig and spectacles, to make his way around Petrograd during the coup. Despite the disguise, he was instantly recognised by opponents#The Cheka, the secret police created by Lenin and forerunners of the KGB, moved into their notorious Lubyanka headquarters in former insurance offices in Moscow in 1918#Lenin was chauffeur-driven in a Rolls-Royce after seizing power#Lenin's mummified remains were placed in a mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow after his death. The Lenin mausoleum became the most macabre and bizarre tourist attraction in the world