Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), the Russian revolutionary leader who founded the Soviet Union and established communism as a major world system.
Russian name born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov; 'Lenin' was a revolutionary pseudonym derived from the Lena River in Siberia, adopted to hide his identity from tsarist authorities.
Lenin's pseudonym was brilliant tradecraft—he named himself after a river in the vast Siberian wilderness, giving his revolutionary identity a mysterious connection to Russia's remotest regions.
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