Vladimir Lenin

founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With an area of 1,439 square kilometers, Saint Petersburg is the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.

thumb|A punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, 1945 The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands for "Glávnoye upravléniye ispravítel'no-trudovýkh lageréy " (Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере

thumb|Vladimir Lenin, after whom Leninism is named

period of political repression and mass killings after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918 carried out by Bolsheviks

Russian assassin (1890-1918)

main-belt asteroid

city in Russia

Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".

1921 treaty between Soviet Russia and Turkey

Shushenskoye () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Shushensky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Yenisei and Big Shush rivers. Population:

Robbery of bank stagecoach by Bolsheviks in 1907

phrase first used by Vladimir Lenin on 1914

Soviet actor (1894–1939)

Poronin , is a village in southern Poland; from 1999 it formed part of Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (it was previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998).

aphorism found in 2 Thess 3:10

communist International's membership conditions

Soviet actor and theatre director (1900–1974)

Concept introduced by Vladimir Lenin

1924 death and funeral of the Soviet Union's first leader

Liquidationism () was the ideology among some members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) who argued for the abandonment of the underground party work and transition to exclusively legal political activities.

Soviet and Russian actor

Marxist-Leninist concept

Attempted assassinations of Vladimir Lenin

art used as propaganda

1922 Soviet show trial of anti-Bolshevik leftists

Sovnarkom decree of danger

history site in Sestroretsk, Russia

family of Vladimir Lenin's maternal grandfather

preserved Finnish 4-6-0 locomotive (VR class H2)