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For my Epic Rap Battles of History card project. Lenin appeared in episode 33; Rasputin vs Stalin, where he 'spat a thesis against both of their arses'. Made in Illustrator.

Vladimir Lenin

22/4/1870 - 21/1/1924

                Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simibrisk in what was then the Russian Empire. He went on to become a communist revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and a highly controversial world figure.

                He began his activism in 1893 after moving to Saint Petersburg and was eventually arrested after distributing revolutionary publications to striking workers. In February 1897 he was sentenced without trial to three years exile in Siberia. While in exile Lenin kept updated on developments in Marxist theory. At this time there was a schism between those advocating for a peaceful, electoral path to socialism, and those advocating for violent revolution. Lenin supported the latter viewpoint.

                After his exile was over, Lenin left Russia for Western Europe. While abroad, he published the newspaper Iskra under the alias of Lenin. When WWI broke out he was living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he was initially arrested due to his Russian citizenship, but eventually released for his anti-Tsarist views. In 1917 protests in Russia forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate and a Provincial Government to take control. Once Lenin heard of the revolution, he became determined to return to Russia. It was on this trainride back to Russia that he wrote his famous April Theses; a program for the Bolshevik Party which called for the armed takeover of the Provincial Government.

                The Bolshevik's did succeed in overthrowing the Provisional Government in the October Revolution, and Lenin became the Chairman of the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The SFSR would eventually become a founding member of the Soviet Union, which Lenin was also the Chairman of. Whilst Lenin was initially popular with the Russian people, vicious actions undertaken by him and Stalin known as the Red Terror (executing dissenters, executing the Royal Family, secret police known as the Cheka) led to unrest, and eventual civil war. It was around this time that Lenin became ill, and after his death in 1924 he was succeed by Josef Stalin, whom Lenin had not trusted and did not want as his successor... with good reason.

Description
For my Epic Rap Battles of History card project. Lenin appeared in episode 33; Rasputin vs Stalin, where he 'spat a thesis against both of their arses'. Made in Illustrator.

Vladimir Lenin

22/4/1870 - 21/1/1924

                Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in Simibrisk in what was then the Russian Empire. He went on to become a communist revolutionary, politician, political theorist, and a highly controversial world figure.

                He began his activism in 1893 after moving to Saint Petersburg and was eventually arrested after distributing revolutionary publications to striking workers. In February 1897 he was sentenced without trial to three years exile in Siberia. While in exile Lenin kept updated on developments in Marxist theory. At this time there was a schism between those advocating for a peaceful, electoral path to socialism, and those advocating for violent revolution. Lenin supported the latter viewpoint.

                After his exile was over, Lenin left Russia for Western Europe. While abroad, he published the newspaper Iskra under the alias of Lenin. When WWI broke out he was living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he was initially arrested due to his Russian citizenship, but eventually released for his anti-Tsarist views. In 1917 protests in Russia forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate and a Provincial Government to take control. Once Lenin heard of the revolution, he became determined to return to Russia. It was on this trainride back to Russia that he wrote his famous April Theses; a program for the Bolshevik Party which called for the armed takeover of the Provincial Government.

                The Bolshevik's did succeed in overthrowing the Provisional Government in the October Revolution, and Lenin became the Chairman of the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The SFSR would eventually become a founding member of the Soviet Union, which Lenin was also the Chairman of. Whilst Lenin was initially popular with the Russian people, vicious actions undertaken by him and Stalin known as the Red Terror (executing dissenters, executing the Royal Family, secret police known as the Cheka) led to unrest, and eventual civil war. It was around this time that Lenin became ill, and after his death in 1924 he was succeed by Josef Stalin, whom Lenin had not trusted and did not want as his successor... with good reason.