Vladimir Lenin
Known for Acting · 71 credits
- Born
- 1870-04-21
- Died
- 1924-01-21
- Place of birth
- Simbirsk
- Also known as
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov · Lenin · Vladimir I. Ulyanov · Ле́нин · Vladímir Ilich Uliánov · Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Biography
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Known For
American Experience
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The UnXplained
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
2022
as Self
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)
A History of Antisemitism
2022
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
2022
as Self (archive footage)
TV Shows (12)
American Experience
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The UnXplained
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
2022
as Self
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)
A History of Antisemitism
2022
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Apocalypse: Stalin
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Doomsday: World War I
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
as Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
2024
as Self
V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
1983
as Self (archiveFootage)
Ленин
2014
as Vladimir Iljič Lenin
Movies (59)
Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Corporation
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
2017
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
2023
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
2017
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
La Rabbia
1963
as Self (archive footage)
Anniversary of the Revolution
1918
as Self - Politician
Maxim Gorky
1940
as Self (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Our Cinema
1940
as (archive footage)
The Chosen
2016
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
The Russian Revolution
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
2016
as Himself (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
1977
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Magic Beam
1963
as Self (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
1979
as Archive footage
Reagan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
as himself (archive footage)
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
2021
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin: Man of Steel
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
as Himself (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
1996
as Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Guns of August
1964
as Self (archive footage)
Tsar to Lenin
1937
as Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
2018
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
as Himself
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
1927
as Self (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Human Remains
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
1919
as Self
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
2008
as Self
USSR (1917-1991)
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
1934
Karl Marx und seine Erben
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
1939
as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
1991
as Self (archive footage)
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
1973
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
2022
as (archival footage)
Caudillo
1977
as Himself (archive footage)
Beginning
1967
The Soviet Union: A New Look
1978
as Self (archive footage)
The Mausoleum
1999
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Mayakovsky
1980
as (archive footage)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
1947
as Self (archive footage)
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
2024
as Self (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
2017
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
2018
as Self
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
2012
as Himself
V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
2007
as Self - archive footage
Lenin
1967
as Self (archive footage)
Bukharin and the Terror
1988
About Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbir… With 71 credits spanning from 1918 to 2024, Vladimir Lenin has appeared in 59 films and 12 TV shows.
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- Naqoyqatsi (2002) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Corporation (2003) — as Self (archive footage)
- Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King (2003) — as Self (archive footage)
- Laissez-faire (2015) — as Self (archive footage)
- Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution (2017) — as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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