in March 1887 A terrorist named Alexander Ilyich arrived in St. arrested in St. Petersburg He was carrying the bomb with which he was going to attack Tsar Alexander III. After a very summary trial, he was hanged along with other comrades in the People’s Will movement. His father, the son of a conservative-liberal family, was an inspector in the tsar’s schools, had the status of a state councilor, and was married to the daughter of a doctor of German origin. Both followed the rites and celebrations of the Orthodox Church. Alexander was Lenin’s older brother..
Surprisingly, Lenin was completely out of politics at that time and had no interest in public affairs. He was the best student in his class and an exemplary student. His friends thought he was antisocial and there was nothing to foresee a revolutionary future. The death of his brother, the rejection of people who avoided contact with the relatives of the executed terrorist, and his expulsion from Kazan University, where he studied law, led to a major incident in the following years. Lenin was accumulating a growing hatred for the system and the political power of the tsars.. Afraid that she would commit suicide, she could not do anything for four years with the support of her mother’s widow’s pension. He had time to read a lot and radicalized his ideology with the works of Karl Marx and his brother’s books. By the time the family moved to Kazan, Lenin had already accumulated a large amount of hatred towards those who interrupted his career and rejected his family. Hatred has been greatly fueled obsession with destroying the reactionary liberal and bourgeois world in which he lives. He adopted Marx’s doctrine because it responded to this desire for destruction through class struggle.
His other great passion was power. Absolute power emerged in complete control of life and public opinion, without rivals who could thwart his plans. He disdained all opposing views, which he tended to ridicule, and interpreted the facts to suit his own purposes. Biographers also emphasize this: A psychology that tends to manage terrorism based on principleHe imitates the Robespierre of the French Revolution. Plekhanov’s readings, as well as those of Marx, led him to try a new path between the terrorist propositions of the People’s Will and the politicians of the Social Democratic Party. The road was revolution. He started this with his membership in the Social Democratic Party in 1893 and his contact with working-class circles, where he taught agitation techniques. I was in St. Petersburg and I was 23 years old.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk in April 1870. His early writings were texts without any content or significance, without commitments or political interests. He got married at a very young age Nadia Krupskayawho consents to her husband’s relationships with his lovers, especially his girlfriends Inessa ArmandA French woman whom Lenin met in Paris, the daughter of two music hall artists and the wife of a wealthy Russian. It is said that the only time Lenin cried in public was at Armand’s funeral in 1920.Although his name was erased from all biographies of Lenin and the letters they wrote to each other were kept secret until the collapse of the USSR.
Short and prematurely balding, Lenin looked like a merchant or a teacher. He had little cultural background, a superficial knowledge of History and a simple idea of capitalism. His inner strength was his iron discipline, asceticism and revolutionary fanaticism; In short, what is his charisma? It attracted both peasants, workers and intellectuals.
He had already risen through the ranks in the Social Democratic Party when the authorities allowed him to continue his law studies as a free student. The path he chose for his future was politics. He was imprisoned several times and spent three years in Siberian prisons. He spent almost half his adult life in exile (Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Poland, Austria, England, Sweden), so he did not know his country very well. He saw Russia as a suitable springboard from which to launch the international revolution. He left the Social Democratic Party, which he accused of being economistic and revisionist, and from 1902 on he wrote “What Should Be Done?” In his work, called for the establishment of a revolutionary party of workers and peasants and is run by an intelligentsia. With these principles founded the Bolshevik PartyDuring the 1905 revolution, it was already operating through political activities and terrorist acts. He created it in his own image and likeness and diluted the organizations that formed it and eliminated its rivals, until he became the only authority capable of ruling Russian society in those years.
He was in favor of the defeat of Russia during the First World War because he thought that this would lead to the collapse of tsarism. The German High Command, aware of Lenin’s plans, used this to its advantage and financed the Bolshevik leader’s return from exile to Russia on a train crossing all of Germany so that he could actively participate in the coup. against Kerensky on the eve of the first democratic elections in Russian history. The victory of the February and October revolutions of 1917 led to Lenin becoming the first communist leader of the revolution. USSR. One of his first initiatives was to sign the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany and remove Russia from the war, which precipitated another conflict in the form of a bloody civil war.
Lenin, who came to power with an iron fist, died in Gorky on January 21, 1924. Although he wanted to be buried in Saint Petersburg, a hundred years have passed. by decision stalinHis mummified body is displayed in a mausoleum in Red Square With Putin’s approval, Moscow remains one of the biggest tourist attractions.