Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin (Russian, Владимир Ильич Ленин) (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924) was the first leader of the Soviet Union. He was absolutely essential to the country in its infancy.

Lenin, a communist, opposed Russia's involvement in World War I and believed in the proletarian revolution called for by Karl Marx. During the war, he participated in the Russian Revolution as leader of the Bolshevik faction. He was thus involved in the regicide against Tsar Nicholas II. He led the Bolsheviks during an ensuing power struggle in which he was opposed by most western governments. Under his leadership, the Bolsheviks came to dominate Russian politics, and Lenin was proclaimed premier of the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.

He was also a political theorist whose works would rival Marx's in their influence over future generations of communists.

Lenin died at age 53 on January 21, 1924. Officially, his cause of death was a series of strokes which he'd suffered over the last two years of his life. He was succeeded by Joseph Stalin.

Vladimir Lenin in the War World Series
Early in the Shangri-La Road Campaign general Hammer-of-God Jackson secretly met with a number of Sauron vassal state leaders including chairman Yegor Vladimirovitch of the New Soviet Men. On entering the council chamber, each of the chairman's officers ground their heels in a mosaic portrait of an ordinary looking man with a high forehead and blood colored birthmark on it. After, they bowed to two portraits on the wall, one of a balding man with a neatly trimmed beard, the other of a clean shaven man with a bushy mustache.

Vladimir Lenin in The Gladiator
Vladimir Lenin was one of the great heroes of an alternate where the Soviet Union won the Cold War.

Vladimir Lenin in Worldwar
Vladmir Lenin was despised by the Race for his role in the death of Nicholas II. The Race saw its own emperors as sacred and expected all other people to behave similarly when their Conquest Fleet first arrived on Tosev 3.

Vladimir Lenin in Joe Steele
Although Vladimir Lenin had been dead for years before Joe Steele became President of the United States, Steele nonetheless disdained Lenin and his successor as leader of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky, for their failure to live up to their professed ideals of equality.