Vladimir Lenin

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-09 11:25
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Vladimir Lenin
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Lenin, Vladimir
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Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin led the Communist revolution against czarist rule in Russia, and was the head of the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1924. Gavin mentions him in The Mansion when he refers to Communist Russia as "Lenin's frankenstein" (259).

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