At schuil, Lenin did weel at theLaitin an theGreek. Houaniver, in 1887 he wis rejectit frae Kazan State Varsitie for bein ower radical an protestin agin theTsar, that wis the leader o Roushie at the time. In that year, his brither Alexander Ulyanov wis hanged for his pairt in a bomb plot tae kill TsarAlexander III. Lenin went on studyin bi hissel, an in 1881 he gat a license tae be alawer.[2]
InJulie o1898, whan he wis in Siberie, Lenin mairiet asocialist wumman, Nadezhda Krupskaya. In1899, he set furth a beuk criedThe Development o Caipitalism in Roushie. In1900, Lenin wis lowsed frae Siberia.[1][2]
Aifter he wis alloued tae leave Siberia, Lenin straivaigit abootEurope. He began tae set furth a Marxist tract or newspaper, cryedIskra ("Spark"). He became a hie-up member o the Roushian Social Democratic Labour Pairtie, or RSDLP.[2][1]
In1903, Lenin haed an airgiement wi anither leader o the RSDLP, Julius Martov. This airgiment, aboot the organisation o the Pairtie (Lenin wantit a strict, centralised, an disciplined model - Martov a less strict, less centralised ane) dividit the pairtie in twa. Martov's uphauders became kent as Mensheviks ("minority"), Lenin's uphauders as Bolsheviks ("majority"). In fact Martov's uphauders wis a majority in the RSDLP, but Lenin's uphauders haed a majority onIskra's editorial buird, whaur the name wis taen frae.[2]
Lenin flittit taeFinland in1907, acause it wis saufer for Marxists in Finland nor in Roushie. He stravaigit aboot Europe, visitin monie socialist convenes an events. Durin this time he bydit in different airts likeLunnon,Paris an, durin Warld War I, inGeneva. Whan war brak oot, the Seicont Internaitional, that includit the Bolsheviks, brak doun, whan sindrie memmer pairties uphaudit thair kintras in the war, gaun awa frae the Marxist idea o internaitionalism. Lenin an the Bolsheviks wis ane o a haundfu o groups an fowk juist that stuid agin the war for Marxist reasons.[2][1]
Efter Tsar Nicholas II abdicatit acause o the Februar Revolution, Lenin gaed back tae Roushie. He became an important Bolshevik heid, an set furth theApril Theses anent whit he sayed wis mistaks o the new middle-cless govrenment o Kerensky; he cawed for a warkers' revolution tae owerthraw the govrenment. Lenin spak aboot mistaks o monie memmers o the Bolshevik Central Committee an aw (includin Zinoviev, Kamenev an Stalin) that helpit the govrenment tae haud on fechtin the war, agin whit the Leninists wantit.[4]
Durin Julie 1917, whan Lenin wis fund guilty o bein fundit bi the Germans, he haed tae flee tae Finland.
In October 1917, the Bolsheviks unner Lenin an Trotsky wis at the heid o the St Petersburg Soviet and ither Soviets aw ower Roushie takkin pouer frae Kerensky's Proveesional Guvrenment; this wis kent as the October Revolution, an it resultit in the first Communist state in warld history.
On November 8, 1917, Lenin wis waled Premier o the Soviet Union bi the Congress o Roushie Soviets.[1][2][4]
Acause o theGerman invasion o Warld War I, he signed the Treaty o Brest-Litovsk. Roushie syne tynt a lot o laund, but the Germans didna invade onie mair.
Aifter he becam leader, Lenin shut doun the Constituent Assembly. He shut doun aw ither poleetical groups that wisna Communist an aw. No lang efter, Fanya Kaplan, an anarchist, shot Lenin three times wi a revolver.[2]
Durin the Roushian Ceevil Weir, Lenin stairtit war communism. Houaniver, aifter the war, Lenin brocht in the New Economic Policy. Some private enterprise wis alloued, but no muckle.[1][4]
Frae whan Kaplan shot Lenin, he stairtit haein monie strokes. BiMey 1922, he wis sair paralysed. Aifter a stroke inMairch 1923, he cuidna spaek or muve. Lenin's fowert stroke kilt him inJanuar 1924.[1][2]
The ceety of St. Petersburg wis renamed Leningrad, but efter the Soviet Union fell in 1991 it got cawed St. Petersburg again.[3][4]
Afore Lenin dee'd, he sayed he wantit tae be birriet aside his mither. Whan he dee'd, the Communist guvrenmen lat the fowk o Roushie come an leuk at him. Acause fowk keepit on comin, thay decidit no tae birry him. A mausoleum wis biggit in Reid Square,Moscow, ower Lenin's bodie, sae that fowk cuid aye see him.[1][2][4]
Efter a pouer struggle in the Communist Pairtie, he wis replaced bi Joseph Stalin as leader o the Soviet Union. Lenin's last testament sayed that Stalin wis ower rude an rauchie an shuid be gart demit frae the poseetion o General Secretar o the Communist Pairtie; houaniver, thon testament wis suppressed bi Stalin an his uphauders aifter Lenin's daith.[2][4][1]
