Everything you need to know about Lenin

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We’ve compiled the best of our articles on Vladimir Lenin for you below.

Main articles:

1. Who was Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik leader?
2. Why did he adopt the name ‘Lenin’?
3. How exactly did Lenin plan to apply Marxism to Russia?

Lenin as a person:

4. What was Lenin like as a person?
5. Did the revolution make Lenin rich?
6. How much money did Lenin and Stalin make?
7. How did Lenin’s bodyguards operate?
8. What was Lenin like as a kid?
9. Who was Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife?
10. Why did he look up to his older sister Anna?
11. What happened to Lenin’s other siblings?
12. Did Lenin like to drink?

Lenin in visuals:

13. 10 photos of Vladimir Lenin you’ve probably never seen
14. Lenin in Soviet propaganda posters
15. Vladimir Lenin in Soviet art
16. Images of Lenin in contemporary art
17. 5 movies about Lenin you can watch ONLINE
18. The most unusual Lenin monuments ever
19. 5 WEIRD monuments to Lenin
20. How a Lenin monument appeared in Nazi Germany

Lenin’s body after his death:

21. How did Vladimir Lenin die?
22. What happened to Lenin’s brain after death?
23. How Lenin’s body was evacuated during WWII
24. How Lenin’s body was attacked before and after death
25. The different projects of Lenin’s Mausoleum
26. Everything Russians planned to do with the Mausoleum

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