Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Vladimir Ilich Lenin and How He Affected the Soviet People Few events have shaped today’s history as strangely as the Russian Revolution and the Communist revolutions that followed it. ... Lenin, his doctrines, and his political practices. Contemporary thinking about world affairs has been greatly influenced by Lenin’s thinking and contributions. From Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen points to today’s preoccupation with wars of national liberation, imperialism, and decolonization, many important issues of contemporary social science were first raised or thought of by Lenin. ... “A bookish man with a scholars habits and a generals tactical instincts (Remnick)”, Lenin introduced to the 20th century the taking of a self-thought theory and experimenting it on an entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that “erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. (Remnick)” In his short career in power, Lenin created a government model not just for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, Hitler, Castro, and Pol Pot (Remnick). Lenin was born in Simbirsk (today Ulyanovsk) on April 10, 1870. ... Vladimir received a high education given to the sons of the Russian upper class but he turned into a radical thinker. ... Lenin graduated from secondary school with amazing grades, enrolled at Kazan University, but was expelled after participating in a demonstration. ... “As a lawyer, Lenin became very involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and party organizer. ... Lenin wanted to go further than that. ... For Lenin, this showed that he and they shared no aims or views.