1970 - unc. - 50 Kčs - V. I. Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924) - Russian revolutionary, leader of the Bolshevik party. The original name of V. I. Ulyanov.
Lenin was born in a family of high school principal in Simbirsk (later renamed Ulyanovsk). His father sought to increase the population's education and pioneered the democratization of Russia. Alone young Ulyanov was an excellent student, interested in history, literature and foreign languages. The Lenin radicalization occurred after the Tsarist authorities had executed his elder brother, who was involved in the assassination attempt on Tsar. For participation in student protests in 1887 after four months was expelled from the Faculty of Law at the University of Kazan and deported to the nearby village Kokukino. Do Kazan was able to return in the autumn of the following year, at the school but did not make it.
The rights thus completed through distance learning in St. Petersburg, where in 1891 received a license to practice law. Two years later, the then capital city of the Russian empire moved. Instead profession a lawyer but became involved in politics and soon became a leading figure of St. Petersburg Marxists. In 1895 he founded the radical organization Association of struggle for the liberation of the working class, but the same year he was arrested by the police and after fourteen months of imprisonment exiled to Siberia. The village Electricity Plant went to see him a leftist activist and teacher Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin whom he married in 1898.
After returning from Siberia emigrated to Switzerland, where he published a magazine Iskra and co-founder of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (RSDLP). After its split in 1903, he became a representative of the radical Bolshevik power.
In 1905, the situation in Russia came to a head. The opposition to the government aroused so-called Bloody Sunday (January 22), when the Imperial army shooting down eight hundred people in a protest procession led by the priest Gapon. In November of that year, Lenin returned to St. Petersburg to folk uproars used for his purposes. The first attempt at revolution was unsuccessful, so he traveled to Finland, later to Sweden for a long time then settled in Switzerland.
In 1912 he was held in Prague All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP, Lenin's Bolshevik where wing organization became independent.
In February 1917, Russia held democratic revolution that overthrew the Tsarist regime. In April Lenin with the help of the German authorities and returned to the country in an effort to take advantage of the chaotic situation, began to organize a coup. November 7, after an artillery shot from the cruiser Aurora, the Bolsheviks seized the Winter Palace, which housed the interim government. Already the next day Lenin became Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. The October Revolution launched a bitter civil war in which the Bolsheviks finally managed to defeat the forces Whites and intervention choirs from England, France, Germany, Italy, USA and Japan.
April 30, 1918 Lenin tried to shoot a member of the party SRs Fanny Kaplan, for which he was later executed.
Lenin had to chase hard Orthodox Church and called for the destruction of the priests, his army brutally dispersed a desperate rebellion hungry peasants which beggaring armies of both warring parties. After the violent Bolshevik policy of the Soviet Union led to economic disaster, restore Lenin small private business, resigned from collectivization and announced a new economic plan (NEP). After the onset of Stalin before him at the end of his life vainly warned himself Bolshevik leader, there was another terror and violent consolidation of communist power. Lenin died after a second heart attack January 21, 1924 in Gorkch near Moscow.