Vladimir Lenin
Known for Acting · 77 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 Corporation
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
as Self - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
1996
Apocalypse: Stalin
2015
as Self (archive footage)
TV Shows (15)
American Experience
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The UnXplained
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
as Self - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)
Assassinations That Changed the World
1996
Apocalypse: Stalin
2015
as Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
2024
as Self
Doomsday: World War I
2012
as Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
2022
as Self
V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
1983
as Self (archiveFootage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Europa: The Last Battle
2017
The Century of Icons
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999
as Self (archive footage)
A History of Antisemitism
2022
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Ленин
2014
as Vladimir Iljič Lenin
Movies (62)
The Corporation
2003
as Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
2016
as Himself (archive footage)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
1947
as Self (archive footage)
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
1934
100 years of social democracy 1894-1994
1994
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Mayakovsky
1980
as (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Anniversary of the Revolution
1918
as Self - Politician
How to Stage a Coup
2017
Maxim Gorky
1940
as Self (archive footage)
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
2008
as Self
The Mummy
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
as Self (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
1919
as Self
Lenin
1967
as Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
1991
as Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
1977
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
1973
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Геннадий Хазанов. Лицо под маской
2018
as Self
The Chosen
2016
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
V.I.Lenin: History Will Not Forgive Us
2007
as Self - archive footage
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
2018
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
2012
as Himself
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin: Man of Steel
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
2017
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
1974
as himself (archive footage)
La Rabbia
1963
as Self (archive footage)
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
2017
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Guns of August
1964
as Self (archive footage)
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Reagan
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The Russian Revolution
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
2023
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Human Remains
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
1963
as Self (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
1979
as Archive footage
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
1925
as Himself (archive footage)
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
1927
as Self (archive footage)
Stones in Cold Water
2023
as Self (archival footage)
Tsar to Lenin
1937
as Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
2022
as (archival footage)
Our Cinema
1940
as (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
2014
as Self (archive footage)
USSR (1917-1991)
2024
as Self (archive footage)
The Mausoleum
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Beginning
1967
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
1996
as Self (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)
Karl Marx und seine Erben
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
1939
as Self (archive footage)
Caudillo
1977
as Himself (archive footage)
The Soviet Union: A New Look
1978
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 77 credits spanning from 1918 to 2025, Vladimir Lenin has appeared in 62 films and 15 TV shows.
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- The Corporation (2003) — as Self (archive footage)
- The Soviet Story (2008) — as Self (archive footage)
- Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court (2016) — as Himself (archive footage)
- Moscow, Capital of the USSR (1947) — as Self (archive footage)
- Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown (1934)
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