Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) was the first premier of the Soviet Union.

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 (USSR [in Russian, SSSR] or simply Soviet Union) 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 the young age of 53 in January of 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 as Premier of the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.

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