Lenin, V. I. (1870–1924)

Like many of his left-wing Russian compatriots, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov took a political pseudonym (in his case N. Lenin—the initial N not standing for anything) as a young revolutionary activist to escape detection and arrest by the czarist secret police. Such ...

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