Vladimir Lenin
Actor
Born April 21, 1870 in Simbirsk
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.
Filmography
USSR (1917-1991)
Self (archive footage)
The Return of Vertov
Self (archive footage)
História do Comunismo
Self
A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Self (archive footage)
Aurora's Sunrise
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage)
The Anarchists
Self
A History of Antisemitism
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The UnXplained
Self (archive footage)
Karl Marx und seine Erben
Self (archive footage)
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Europa: The Last Battle
The Russian Revolution
Self (archive footage)
How to Stage a Coup
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Himself (archive footage)
The Chosen
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
Apocalypse: Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Laissez-faire
Self (archive footage)
JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Self (archive footage)
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself (archive footage)
Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
Himself
Doomsday: World War I
Self (archive footage)
Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Epic Rap Battles of History
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Story
Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
Self (archive footage)
The Corporation
Self (archive footage)
Stalin: Man of Steel
Self (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
The Mausoleum
Self (archive footage)
Human Remains
Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Self (archive footage)
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Self (archive footage)
100 years of social democracy 1894-1994
Self (archive footage)
Latest News About Doomsday
Self (archive footage)
Bukharin and the Terror
American Experience
Self (archive footage)
V.I.Lenin. Pages of Life
Self (archiveFootage)
The Man Mayakovsky
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Cinema in Russia
Archive footage
When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Self (archive footage)
The Soviet Union: A New Look
Self (archive footage)
A Grin Without a Cat
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Caudillo
Himself (archive footage)
The Society of the Spectacle
himself (archive footage)
Beginning
Lenin
Self (archive footage)
The Guns of August
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
Self (archive footage)
La Rabbia
Self (archive footage)
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Moscow, Capital of the USSR
Self (archive footage)
Our Cinema
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Maxim Gorky
Self (archive footage)
The Fight For Peace
Self (archive footage)
Tsar to Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Three Songs About Lenin
Self (archive footage)
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Self (archive footage)
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Himself (archive footage)
The Brain of Soviet Russia
Self
Anniversary of the Revolution
Self - Politician