who was vladmir lenin
Vladimir Lenin (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) (1870-1924) was the leader of Russian Communism and an important theoretician of Marxism.Coming to power in 1917 he became dictator of the Soviet Union.enin was born on April 22, 1870 (later to be celebrated as Earth Day) to a middle class Russian family; his parents were school teachers. In 1889, he became a Marxist after his older brother was hanged for the murder of Tsar Aleksandr II.