jan 17, 1917 - Lenin Takes Power
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Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian communist party, ruled Russia and lead the Russian revolution. He was thought of the greatest thinker since Karl Marx. The ideas of both of these men were combined into Marx-Leninism. He read the works of Karl Marx and he decided he was a Marxist he moved to st petersburg. In St Petersburg her was arrested and exiled for being an activist with other Marxist in December of 1895 and had to stay in Siberia for three years. When he was out of exile in 1898 he co founded a newspaper and then went back to St Petersburg to become a revolutionary leader. He took over Russia during world war one and renamed it the soviet union and became the president/dictator in 1917
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Russian Revolution
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