Vladimir Lenin
Acting • Born 1870-04-21 – Died 1924-01-21
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.
Filmography
66 credits
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Our Cinema
Movie • 1940
(archive footage)
Laissez-faire
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Movie • 1962
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Movie • 1927
Self (archive footage)
Human Remains
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
Movie • 2023
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Tsar to Lenin
Movie • 1937
Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Union: A New Look
Movie • 1978
Self (archive footage)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
Cinema in Russia
Movie • 1979
Archive footage
Anniversary of the Revolution
Movie • 1918
Self - Politician
1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stalin: Man of Steel
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
Movie • 1939
Self (archive footage)
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Movie • 1919
Self
The Guns of August
Movie • 1964
Self (archive footage)
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
Movie • 1934
Beginning
Movie • 1967
The Return of Vertov
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Russian Revolution
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Movie • 1925
Himself (archive footage)
Three Songs About Lenin
Movie • 1934
Himself
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Movie • 2017
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Movie • 2013
Himself (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Movie • 2016
Himself (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Movie • 2017
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Corporation
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Chosen
Movie • 2016
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
Movie • 2012
Himself
La Rabbia
Movie • 1963
Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Movie • 2018
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Reagan
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Society of the Spectacle
Movie • 1974
himself (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
Movie • 1977
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Movie • 2021
Self - Politician (archive footage)
USSR (1917-1991)
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Man Mayakovsky
Movie • 1980
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Caudillo
Movie • 1977
Himself (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
Movie • 2022
(archival footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
The Mausoleum
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
Movie • 1963
Self (archive footage)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
Movie • 1947
Self (archive footage)
Lenin
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage)
Bukharin and the Terror
Movie • 1988
Doomsday: World War I
TV • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
TV • 1999
Self (archive footage)
A History of Antisemitism
TV • 2022
Self - Politician (archive footage)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
TV • 2022
Self
V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
TV • 1983
Self (archiveFootage)
The UnXplained
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Apocalypse: Stalin
TV • 2015
Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
TV • 2024
Self
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Ленин
TV • 2014
Vladimir Iljič Lenin