Centenary of the birth of Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born on April 22, 1870 in Simbirsk, now Ulyanovsk, on the banks of the Volga. After finishing secondary school, Vladimir Ulyanov entered the law faculty of Kazan University. He was arrested shortly after, then deported for his participation in the student revolutionary movement. In 1889, Lenin moved to Samara where he continued to study the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In 1893 he left Samara for Saint Petersburg. He undertook vast propaganda among the workers, introduced them to Marxist theory, taught them to lead the struggle for their economic and political demands. In 1895, he brought together the Marxist workers' circles of Saint Petersburg into an organization which took the name of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. In December 1895, police arrested Union leaders. After fourteen months of detention in Saint Petersburg, Lenin was deported to the village of Ghouchenskoye, in eastern Siberia. During the three years of deportation, he wrote dozens of scientific works and political and social articles. Lenin returned from exile in 1900, then emigrated. He lives in Switzerland, Germany and England. In Germany, he edited the newspaper Iskra which friends sent to Russia. In 1907, he represented the Russian Social Democratic Party (RSDLP) in the office of the Socialist International. The socialist revolution triumphed in November 1917. Popular power was established for the first time in the history of humanity. Lenin presides over the first government of the first socialist state in the world. In this position which he occupied until the end of his life, his genius as a statesman was forcefully manifested. Lenin considers one of the most important tasks in building socialism to be the achievement of the cultural revolution: suppression of illiteracy among the population, creation of a system of public education accessible to all, development of science, culture and art. Hard work, long years of emigration and a serious injury in 1918 shook Lenin's health. From the winter of 1921, he was forced to frequently interrupt his work. On January 21, 1924, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.