Politically a Marxist, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known as Leninism, which coupled with Marxian economic theory have collectively come to be known as Marxism–Leninism.īorn to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin gained an interest in revolutionary leftist politics following the execution of his brother Aleksandr in 1887. The Red Army under his ally Trotsky took control of some areas, such as Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan that had set up independent states. Under his administration, the Russian Empire was dissolved and replaced by the Soviet Union, a one-party socialist state industry and businesses were nationalized, and one party took control of all organizations in all areas of society. He served as the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. It was governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 19.
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