Lenin, Vladimir Ilich

Original name �Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov� founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917 - 24) of the Soviet state. He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern (Communist International) and the posthumous source of �Leninism,