The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-23
LEllHl|E'S WORK ' ENDSBY. DEATH
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 the passing of the premier and the
 political situation generally. S Nikolai Lenine, lawyer, pamphlstaer
 and finally dictator of all Hussia, was
 the organizer and chief exponent Of the
 movement which became known@ aa
 bolshevism, and which he character
 ized as "the great experiment; the die. tatorship of the proletarfat.'" 2ft The career of this short, plump, bald, headed little man, who turned Russia topsy-turyy and probably al much in fluenced the other nations of the world as any other, man of his century, wac full of adventure from his boyhood He was a revolutionist at school, at the academy, at his university and ever afterward. :. 1& ti' i.3i ..5a. x. sp:ss Lenine's real name, was Vladimir Hitch Ulianoff. He was born April 24, F1870, in the town of Simbrisk, of a bonrgeois family with Q pronounced Tartar strain, reflected in Lenine's high cheek bones and slightly .slnnting, ryn- ical eyes. His father was responsible master at communal school at Sim beisk and was very well known among |tke school teacliers of his district. .Iye- nine. himself attended the high school
 
 dence his principal was the father of erward overthrow to become premier of Russia.
 Socialist as Boy
 The spirit of revolution against the Ezar entered into practically every Rus sian school in those days, and Lenine, with some of his companions, is said to have smuggled the works of Karl Marx bn socialism into the school and to have read them with all the secret fear of discovery that American school boys have of being caught with a dime novel hidden behind their geographies. M. Kerensky reported that Lenine was a |very studious pupil, interpretive in his thoughts and shy in his relations with his schoolmates. When Lenine was IT his eldest brother, Alexander Ulianoff, was sentenced to death and hanged for an attempt upon the life of Czar Alex ander III, which was organized by q terroristic organization of which he was q prominent member. 'gs', r, Lenine himself was never . member of any terroristic organization, but a desire to avenge his brothers death is said to heve ruled his life. His active revolutionary work began in the early eos when he entered the University of Kazan, from which he was expelled one month later for participating in stu dents revolutionary movement, Then he moved to Petrograd, attended the university and studied for a lawyers degree.
 He spent more time. however, in rev. propaganda among the Petro- grad workmen than at his studies. He was arrested, served a long term of imprisonment, and then. was deported to Siberia. He lived for several years a quiet life at Minusinsk, tiny Si- berian village. During this period he wrote several books on, political econ omy, which gave him fame as the real exponent of the Marzian theory. While in Siberia he adopted as his pen name, ".Nikolia Lenine," by which he rose to world notoriety. He is said to have chosen it because of his deep feeling over the massacre of several hundred miners in the Lena gold fields by czar- ist troops. Y. In 1901 I,enine finished his term of deportation in Siberia and emigrated to Switzerland. where, together with two of his friends; Marton and Plakhanoff, he published . newspaper entitled the Dp0fk, OevOteu 10 revolutiOuary pfopA- ganda in Russia. He wandered from Switzerland to Germany. to England and to France, eking out simple ex- istencs by Journalistic efforts, or was supported by wealthier revolutionaries Up to 1904 Lenihs had worked along general Marian lines, but in that year he detached himself from his comrades and organized the bolsheyik faction of the social democratic party, the same faction which he swept into power in Russia as the communistic dictator.
 Returns to Russia
 In 1905, when Russia almost cracked under the first revolution" Lenine surreptitiously made his way back to Russia. Under constant danger of ar rest, he remained hidden in Petrograd for two menths, and then escaped to Finland from where he directed the