Lenin, Vladimir I.

*		1870
†		1924

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Russian revolutionary and politician

Lenin is, after Marx and Engels, the most important "classic figure" of Marxism-Leninism.

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	1895 founding of the Combat Alliance for the Liberation of the Working Class
	1897 exile to Siberia
	instigates the schism of Russian social democracy into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
	1905 - after failure of attempted uprising - exile to Finland
	from there, starting in 1917, preparations for the "October Revolution" in Russia
	chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
	1918, implementation of the cease fire with the German Reich (Peace of Brest-Litovsk)
	1919 founding of the III Communist International
	Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CP: New Economic Policy
	1922 founding of the Soviet Union with a federative constitution
	1923 assassination attempt
	until his death in 1924, incapable of political activities due to illness