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Vladimir Lenin

1870 - 1924

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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist who was the founder and first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. The founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin led the October Revolution which established the world's first socialist state. His government won the Russian Civil War and consolidated power in a one-party state under the Communist Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Lenin has received more than 25,581,790 page views. His biography is available in 200 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 194 in 2019). Vladimir Lenin is the 11th most popular politician (down from 7th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Politician.

Vladimir Lenin is most famous for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which led to the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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  • 26M

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  • 88.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 200

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Lenin ranks 11 out of 19,576. Before him are Julius Caesar, Louis XIV of France, Suleiman the Magnificent, Joseph Stalin, Thomas Jefferson, and Saladin. After him are Jimmy Carter, Augustus, Richard Nixon, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Cleopatra, and David.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Vladimir Lenin ranks 1. After him are Maria Montessori, Alfred Adler, Christian X of Denmark, Franz Lehár, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Jules Bordet, Adolf Loos, Albert Fish, Miguel Primo de Rivera, William G. Morgan, and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Among people deceased in 1924, Vladimir Lenin ranks 1. After him are Franz Kafka, Giacomo Puccini, Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Lenin ranks 2 out of 3,761. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724). After him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Vladimir Putin (1952), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), Anton Chekhov (1860), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vladimir Lenin ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Putin (1952), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Peter the Great (1672), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Yuri Andropov (1914).

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