Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilych Lenin (born Ulyanov) was a Russian revolutionary and politician who served as the first leader of the Russian SFSR and the Soviet Union, before his death in 1924. He gave his name to Marxism-Leninism, the official ideology of the Bolshevik Party. An active socialist since his brother's execution in 1887, he became the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the, which split from the more reformist Menshevik faction in 1912.