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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

3.9
Russian revolutionary leader who led the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and became the first head of the Soviet Union
  • proper noun
translation icon : Vladimir Ilich Lenin
  • Vladimir Lenin played a pivotal role in shaping 20th-century Russian history as the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Examples

  • A statue of Vladimir Lenin still stands in some cities of the former Soviet Union.

  • Vladimir Lenin is remembered as the founder of the Bolshevik Party and a key figure in the Russian Revolution.

  • Many scholars have studied the influence of Vladimir Lenin on modern communist states.

  • Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary leader.

  • What did Vladimir Lenin achieve?

  • The ideas of Vladimir Lenin laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Soviet Union.

  • In many history classes, Vladimir Lenin's strategies during the revolution are critically analyzed.

Synonyms

Lenin
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Russian political leader who led the 1917 revolution and became the first leader of the Soviet Union

is the same person but prefers the briefer usual naming
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
vsVladimir Lenin
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A Russian revolutionary who led the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and became the first leader of the Soviet Union

is the same person but uses the more common short name
Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
vsVladimir Lenin
9.0

A Russian revolutionary leader who founded the Bolshevik Party and led the 1917 revolution

is the same historical figure presented with shorter naming
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
vsVladimir Lenin
4.9

A Russian revolutionary leader who led the Bolshevik party and helped start the Soviet Union

is the same content but uses a shorter common name form
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
vsVladimir Lenin
6.6

Russian revolutionary leader who led the 1917 revolution and became the first head of the Soviet Union

is the identical historical reference but uses a shorter name form
Nikolai Lenin
vsVladimir Lenin
4.9

A Russian political leader who led the 1917 revolution and founded the Soviet state

is the same person but appears under a different written name

Surface Forms

Vladimir Lenin main

Morphology

Vladimir + Lenin

This is a proper personal name rather than a compositional phrase, so its referent (a Russian revolutionary leader and historical figure) cannot be derived from the constituent name-parts. Even if a learner knows the individual names 'Vladimir' and 'Lenin' as words, the biographical meaning is arbitrary and must be learned separately, making it non-compositional across languages.

Etymology

Vladimir Lenin took the name Lenin as a 'pen name' when he joined the revolution. One popular story says he chose Lenin from the Lena River in Siberia to hide his real name and to sound like a strong leader, so history knows him as Vladimir Lenin today.