Lenin

Vladimir Lenin Old Major

// "Greatest genius of mankind" (2) // "Born April 10, 1870 in Ulianovsk, Russia Died January 21, 1924 in Soviet Union, Moscow  Nationality: Soviet  Occupation: Head of State" (1)

Early Life:
 * Born Vladimir Il'ich Ul'ianov. (2)[[image:dystopiane2012/180px-Lenin-circa-1887.jpg width="157" height="199" align="right"]]
 * One of six children in an educated middle-class family. (2)
 * Father died in 1886, and his elder brother, Alexander was arrested. (2)
 * Alexander was later exucuted for having plotted the assassination of the Tsar. (2)

Political Life:
 * "Revolutionary Social Democracy"- An adopted political faith Vladimir adopted in 1890.
 * 1895- Arrested in St. Petersburg. Sent into internal exile in Siberia. This is when Lenin developed his plan for a nationwide underground revolutionary newspaper. (4)
 * "The outbreak of World War I in 1914 opened up a new chapter in Lenin's political career, shifting his focus from Russia alone to a Europe-wide and even worldwide revolution." (4)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Lenin spent only the last six years of a thirty year political career in power. (4)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">"On November 8, Lenin was elected as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars by the Russian Soviet Congress.
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Faced with the threat of German invasion, Lenin argued that Russia should immediately sign a peace treaty." (5)

<span style="color: #00ffa5; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 160%;">Power comes with Decisions:
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">"In the first two decades of his career, Lenin focused on importing Western models to Russia. In the last decade, after the traumatic betrayl by Western Social Demogratic parties in 1914, he focused on importing Russian models to the West." (4)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Bolshevik Party to take power in late 1917. (4)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Signing of a separate peace with Germany, as ratified by the Brest-Litovsk treaty early in 1918. (4)[[image:dystopiane2012/250px-Lenin-office-1918.jpg width="213" height="201" align="right"]]
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Establishing an effective Red Army based on peasant recruits and tsarist officers. (4)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Responsible for the decision to adopt the New Economic Policy in 1921. (4)

<span style="color: #00ffa5; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 160%;">Vladimir Lenin and Old Major:
 * <span style="color: #00ffa5; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">"During the next three months there was much secret activity. Major's speech had given to the more intelligent animals on the farm a completely new outlook on life" (p. 11)
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Old Major inspired the revolution in the animals, similar to how Lenin had helped inspire the Russian Revolution.


 * <span style="color: #00ffa5; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">"The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun" (p. 40).
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Like Lenin, part of old Major's remains were preserved and was put on display for the public.


 * <span style="color: #00ffa5; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">"He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance" (p. 3).
 * <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Lenin had a reputation for having a short but respected appearance. <span style="color: #005dff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">[[image:dystopiane2012/Animal-Farm.jpg width="257" height="284" align="right"]]



__Sources:__ 1) Vladimir Ilich Lenin. __Encyclopedia of World Biography__. Detroit: Retrieved from [] 2) Lenin. (1968). Retrieved from [|http://www.encylopedia.comnd] 3) Lynch,M. (2000, March). The roles of Lenin and Stalin in the Russian revolution. Retrieved from [] 4) Vladimir Lenin. (2007). J. Merrimam (Ed.), Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction Detroit: Retrieved from [] 5) Topalian,E. (1983). V. I. Lenin. USA. An impact biography.