Vladimir Lenin Quotes


Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.


Citations

Nikolai Lenin, 1870-1924, Russian Communist Premier, Attributed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities Committee in 100 Things You Should Know About Communism, 1951.

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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
  • Born: April 22, 1870
  • Died: January 21, 1924
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Revolutionary, Politician

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Soviet Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.