Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870 - 1924
By Bijan Adatia
Driven by ideological zeal, Lenin reshaped Russia
and made communism into a potent global force.
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Not long after the Bolsheviks had seized power in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin filled out a bureaucratic questionnaire. For occupation, he wrote "man of letters." So it was that a son of the Russian intelligentsia, a radical straight from the pages of Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed, became the author of mass terror and the first concentration camps ever built o...