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Vladimir Lenin
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Life & Death

Died aged 53
Also known asVladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, Vladimir I. Ulyanov, Ле́нин, Vladímir Ilich Uliánov, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, V.I. Lenin, Lénine, Владимир Ильич Ульянов, Владимир УльяновGenderMaleNationalityRussian Socialist Federative Soviet RepublicBorn21/04/1870Born inSimbirskDied21/01/1924 (aged 53)Died inBolshiye GorkiCausecerebral hemorrhageWikidataQ1394 ↗Buried atLenin's MausoleumTMDb#1135824 ↗

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 then of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924. As the Bolsheviks' founder, Lenin led the October Revolution, which established the world's first communist state. His government won the Russian Civil War and created a one-party state under the Communist Party.

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Filmography33 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2024Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold WarSeriesSelf - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)154
2024The Return of VertovMovieSelf (archive footage)154
2022The Century of IconsSeriesSelf (archive footage)152
2022A History of AntisemitismSeriesSelf - Politician (archive footage)152
2022The AnarchistsSeriesSelf152
2019The UnXplainedSeriesSelf (archive footage)149
2018Karl Marx und seine ErbenMovieSelf (archive footage)148
2017How to Stage a CoupMovie—147
2016Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's CourtMovieHimself (archive footage)146
2015Laissez-faireMovieSelf (archive footage)145
2015Apocalypse: StalinSeriesSelf (archive footage)145
2014JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's TrickMovieSelf (archive footage)144
2013The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the CzarsMovieHimself (archive footage)143
2012My boy, look at the starsMovieSelf (archive footage)142
2011ReaganMovieSelf (archive footage)141
2008The Soviet StoryMovieSelf (archive footage)138
2003Beyond the Movie: The Return of the KingMovieSelf (archive footage)133
2002NaqoyqatsiMovieSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)132
1998Human RemainsMovieSelf (archive footage)128
1996Assassinations That Changed the WorldSeries—126
1996Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1MovieSelf (archive footage)126
1995Theremin: An Electronic OdysseyMovieSelf (archive footage)125
1994100 years of social democracy 1894-1994MovieSelf (archive footage)124
1991Latest News About DoomsdayMovieSelf (archive footage)121
1988American ExperienceSeriesSelf (archive footage)118
1983V.I.Lenin. Pages of LifeSeriesSelf (archiveFootage)113
1980The Man MayakovskyMovie(archive footage)110
19731917 - Jahr der EntscheidungMovieSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)103
1963La RabbiaMovieSelf (archive footage)93
1962To Arms, We Are Fascists!MovieSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)92
1939The Fight For PeaceMovieSelf (archive footage)69
1937Tsar to LeninMovieSelf (archive footage)67
1934Three Songs About LeninMovieSelf (archive footage)64