(Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин, Vladimir Il'ič Lenin; IPA:; born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; – January 21, 1924), was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of what has come to be called Leninism, which is described in socialist literature as an adaptation of Marxism to "the age of imperialism."
Born in Simbirsk, Russia (now Ulyanovsk), Lenin was the son of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov (1831–1886), a Russian civil service official who worked for progressive democracy and free universal education in Russia, and his liberal wife Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835–1916). The family was of mixed ethnic ancestry. "Lenin's antecedents were Russian, Kalmyk, Jewish, German and Swedish, and possibly others".Dimitri Volkogonov "Lenin - A New Biography", page 8. ISBN 0-02-933435-7 Lenin was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.
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