Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 21, 1870
Died
Jan 21, 1924
Place of Birth
Simbirsk
Credits
78 titles
Vladimir Lenin
Biography
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Known For
Filmography
The Mummy
Self (archive footage)
USSR (1917-1991)
Self (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
Self
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Self - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Self (archive footage)
Stones in Cold Water
Self (archival footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
Self
A History of Antisemitism
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
(archival footage)
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The UnXplained
Self (archive footage)
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
Self
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Europa: The Last Battle
The Russian Revolution
Self (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Himself (archive footage)
The Chosen
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
Apocalypse: Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
Ленин
Vladimir Iljič Lenin
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Self (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
Himself
Doomsday: World War I
Self (archive footage)
Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Epic Rap Battles of History
Characters
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Self (archive footage)
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
Self
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
Self - archive footage
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
Self (archive footage)
Stalin: Man of Steel
Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
The Mausoleum
Self (archive footage)
Human Remains
Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Self (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Self (archive footage)
100 years of social democracy 1894-1994
Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
Self (archive footage)