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Aliases: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov , Lenin , Vladimir I. Ulyanov , Ле́нин , Vladímir Ilich Uliánov , Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , V.I. Lenin , Lénine , Владимир Ильич Ульянов , Владимир Ульянов , Владимир Ленин , Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin , Wladimir Lenin , Valdemir Lemos

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Simbirsk

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Movie Involvements: 48

TV Involvements: 11


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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vladimir Lenin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

American Experience
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7

American Experience

(1988) Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
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The Magic Beam

(1963) Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
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7

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

(1962) Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Our Cinema
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Our Cinema

(1940) (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

(2009) Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
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The Fight For Peace

(1939) Self (archive footage)
The UnXplained
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The UnXplained

(2019) Self (archive footage)
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

(2021) Self - Politician (archive footage)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2023 Self - Politician (archive footage)
2022 Self (archive footage)
Self
Self - Politician (archive footage)
(archival footage)
2021 Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019 Self (archive footage)
2018 Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017 Self - Politician (archive footage)
Self (archival footage)
Self (archive footage)
2016 Himself (archive footage)
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
2015 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2014 Self (archive footage)
2013 Himself (archive footage)
2012 Himself
Self (archive footage)
2011 Self (archive footage)
2009 Self (archive footage)
2008 Self (archive footage)
2003 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
2002 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999 Self (archive footage)
1998 Self (archive footage)
1996 Self (archive footage)
1995 Self (archive footage)
1991 Self (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1983 Self (archiveFootage)
1980 (archive footage)
1979 Archive footage
1978 Himself
Self (archive footage)
1977 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Himself (archive footage)
1974 himself (archive footage)
1973 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1967 N/A
1964 Self (archive footage)
1963 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
1962 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1947 Self (archive footage)
1940 (archive footage)
1939 Self (archive footage)
1937 Self (archive footage)
1934 N/A
Himself
1927 Self (archive footage)
1925 Himself (archive footage)
1919 Self
1918 Self - Politician
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Crew

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1983 In Memory Of
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