Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician. He was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later the Soviet Union. His contributions to Marxism would later be synthesized in the Ideology of Marxism-Leninism.
He was born on the 10th of April 1870 in Simbirsk and died in Moscow on the 21st of January 1924 after suffering three strokes and barely surviving an assassination attempt in 1918.