https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff By Victor Sebestyen en-us 2019-11-12 22:07:39 UTC 2020-01-20 02:40:09 UTC hello@padlet.com voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294144 2019-11-12 22:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294144 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294218 2019-11-12 22:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294218 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294326 2019-11-12 22:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/410294326 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/429284975 Lenin's (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) father and mother were born on July 31, 1831 and March 6, 1835 in that order. They both met during the emancipation reform of 1861. Lenin was born on the 22nd of April, 1870,  in the town Simbirsk next to the Volga River. According to Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror, it states, "He loved the River Volga, the high banks of which he walked mile upon mile as a child" (Sebestyen 106). This is showing how much of his time and how Lenin would spend his days as a kid.]]> 2020-01-09 02:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/429284975 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430394336 The Police of the Russian empire was on Lenin's tail for many years. He was put in prison in Siberia many times for pro communist behavior, but he knew that going to prison so often was going to cost him time, so he decided to go to Europe and develop plans there. There he met many people that would become his partners during the Russian Revolution, like Trotsky. Even when he was in Switzerland, the Okhrana (a secret Russian police force meaning, "Guards") were keeping an eye on Lenin's tail. Lenin soon found out that certain people were always following him, so he created a series of fake codes and created false trails for them to follow. ]]> 2020-01-11 22:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430394336 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430394414  Lenin was a bit of a hassle throughout his school days. He got into trouble many times, but he wouldn't break his character. He would always remain passionate about anything, being politics or opinions about something completely opposite. When Lenin turned 17, he was taking a geometry exam, later that day his brother was killed by the Russians for attempting to kill the tsar. This was the point of time when people started to notice a shift in tone with Lenin. After School he had to get a job, but to what occupation? His mother, whom he love to no extent, told Lenin to go into law and become an advocate, since farming wasn't working. Lenin was smart, you can't over turn and rule an entire nation just by luck and chance, he persuaded and influenced the people greatly. ]]> 2020-01-11 22:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430394414 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430397881 After doing some research on Marxism and the French Revolutions, he came back to St. Petersburg and there he began to see a girl named Nadya. He learned from another revolutionist on how to make invisible ink. They use starch and flour to write hidden warnings and ideas on paper that already has stories written on it with ink. So when the Russian force read it, it was a simple letter with stories and thoughts and under UV light, it showed more anti-tsarist ideas. Lenin was always wanted by the Russians, so he hide underground and made more plans for the future of Russia. He was caught and in a letter to his mother he said, according to Lenin the Man, the Dictator it says, "I'm in a better position that other citizens in the Russian empire: at least I can't be arrested" (Sebestyen 94). Once he was released, he continued to live in Siberia longer and there he married his wife Nadya. Around this time, Vladimir started to use a code name, nobody is exactly sure why the name "Lenin" stuck around.  ]]> 2020-01-11 22:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430397881 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430402777 Before he left, he began public speaking in St. Petersburg about ideas of Marxism. The Russians, who considered themselves slaves to the empire, bought into the idea of Socialism and Marxism. Lenin would say and tell anything if he can get more power. Even to difficult and complex situations, he would offer a simple solution to the people, even if the empire has already tried and failed it. Through the help of his revolutionaries, he got many fake passports to visit in and out of multiple countries. He went back into hiding and planning in western Europe. He went to England with his wife Nadya, they stayed at an apartment and were neighbors with another German couple. He hated England, according to Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror it states, "My first impression of London: hideous"(Sebestyen 104). ]]> 2020-01-11 23:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/430402777 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431559652 Lenin and many other socialists gathered together and made a group called Iskra, meaning spark in Russian, they held meetings together. But when they held meetings, they had to have authorities watching and making sure nobody would start fighting, but they reported that all the meetings were in Russian. The point of the meetings, and the name, was to spark and lead a revolution. He would practice his speeches with his wife, they would often go out of town while he was brain-storming ideas. ]]> 2020-01-14 20:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431559652 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431576938 2020-01-14 20:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431576938 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431577116 Lenin went to exile in Switzerland because the British were catching on to his plans. Lenin loved the mountains, he loved to climb them and just lay out and watch the birds fly around. Nadya and Lenin would even try to climb some of the smaller ones, but Nadya reported that the experience was difficult and she had to stay behind. He visited many libraries to study the French Revolution and brainstorm ideas about Marxism. Throughout his adult life, whenever he was stressed, he would get strong headaches, insomnia, and lots of stomach cramps. ]]> 2020-01-14 20:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431577116 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431593027 World War One, The Great War: The War to End All Wars, had erupted in Europe at this time. The Allies were fighting hard against the Central Powers, but they couldn't sustain the war if they continued the same fighting strategy. The Germans were closing in on France, but they also had to supply a lot of food to the East against the Russians. So the Germans had an idea; They would have Lenin go to Russia and stir up the entire country so then they would pull out of the war. Lenin had already heard of the uprisings in Russia so he knew this was the golden moment. Lenin read the letter and at first he wasn't sure if it was real so he responded back. After a little of this the Germans and Lenin agreed that there was to be no talking between them. Lenin and Nadya traveled separately to Germany, afterwards Sweden, then to Finland and finally Russia. Although with the new government installed in Russia, he could legally come back to Russia, he decided not to risk it and used a passport under the name of "William Frey". When he was taking the trains, it was obvious that the Okhrana were following him. He made it to Russia at last without trouble.]]> 2020-01-14 21:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431593027 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431602270 Once he met up with his wife in St Petersburg they went underground immediately. And thanks to his various false papers and fake ID's, they let him stay hidden. According to Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror it states, "It was under the alias Karpov that Lenin met Stalin for the first time, on 25 December 1905" (Sebestyen 171). He had made many alias along the way with his ideas and Stalin said that the room grew silent once he stepped in. Lenin meeting Stalin had made him notice how power and money can corrupt someone like him. Once they were all together, they discussed how they would take over the palace that Tsar Nicholas II was. Violence grew out, the tsar had 100 times more men than Lenin did, and where violence was, Lenin wasn't.  ]]> 2020-01-14 21:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/431602270 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/432207038 Lenin fled from Russia in search of more money since the uprising didn't go so well. The Bolsheviks (meaning "majority" for what the majority of the country wanted. The Bolsheviks were the lower class of the country and didn't want a government that made them work all the time, they wanted the factories and land back, and they also wanted a centralized government that would distribute work and money equally) robbed banks and police officers, and in one place, they managed to rob about 250,000 to 340,000 rubles (around $4,000,000 in today's time). Lenin distanced himself from the crimes but he was the one who approved all of this. The Russian Empire had a warrant issued for Lenin's arrest. He went back underground, shaved off his notorious beard and made a fake identity for himself. He went to Stockholm then Berlin shortly afterwards.]]> 2020-01-16 01:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/432207038 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/432231247 Lenin was put in charge of the revolution against the capitalists. There were armies of soviets against the October Revolution. During the February revolution, people went to the palace and started protesting, the Russian guards began shooting at the crowd which made more people side with the soviets. During the October Revolution, people went around the city hunting down police and taking their weapons to prepare for the worst. In most media, the storming of the palace appears to have a million people protesting that over turned the government. In reality, there were about 10,000 to 25,000 people protesting and only a few had guns. The military directer ordered for them to defend the palace but when the soviets came he fled. The revolutionaries took the Romanov family as prisoner. Lenin walked into office and took charge.]]> 2020-01-16 03:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/432231247 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433000909 When Lenin took charge of office, the entire Romanov dynasty was killed. It's still unclear if Lenin was in charge of shooting, but if he was, he covered his tracks and paperwork pretty well. He also began to cover his tracks on other platforms, he censored press, he threatened to close down presses and more forms of media.]]> 2020-01-17 16:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433000909 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433322201 In Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror, it states, "At midnight on 23 February Lenin personally sent the telegram to Berlin accepting the peace terms" (Sebestyen 379).  Germany, just a few days ago, announced that they would resume the war on Russia to get more resources. And the Russians did pull out, but it was an embarrassment to the Communists. When people wrote that in the papers, Lenin was quick to censor it.]]> 2020-01-19 00:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433322201 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433325349 When Lenin was leaving a factory in Moscow when he was shot my Fanya Kaplan. In Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror it states, "They found that one bullet had gone through his neck from left to right, missing his aorta by a fraction of a centimeter and, having pierced his lung, lodged in his neck above the clavicle" (Sebestyen 412). And the third shot went through his jacket harmlessly. She was later shot. ]]> 2020-01-19 00:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433325349 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433326935 Lenin knew that once he took office there would be uprisings in different forms. He had to fight the Polish uprising by bombing the city and sending in wave after wave of soldiers to capture the capital. They failed and Poland remained a country. WWI was over and Lenin had new challenges, Poland wasn't the only country to try to leave the new USSR, many Slavic countries left to become their own countries. Countries like Belarus, Ukraine, and Latvia were countries for only a couple of months before the Russians invaded. However, unlike Poland, many other Slavic states were reabsorbed into the USSR. ]]> 2020-01-19 01:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433326935 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433327372 Lenin was ill, his insomnia gotten worse, his headaches made him yell, and he woke up every morning looking 80 years old. According to Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror it states, "From early 1921 he was looking like an ill man, and he recognized it himself. 'Unfortunately I am very unwell, my nerves are kaput,' " (Sebestyen 476). He complained about the noise in his office increasingly more often, and he asked to remove the bells on the phone as it put his nerves on edge. ]]> 2020-01-19 01:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433327372 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433327900 He stopped going to his office and remained home with his wife. According to Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror it states, " On 13 December he suffered two strokes, and from then onward his life 'Became a patchwork record of fluctuating illness and recovery' " (Sebestyen 492).  Lenin, and many future dictators, moved the doctors away from Moscow in fear that they would secretly kill them. So Nadya hired a revolutionary doctor that helped Lenin for a little but he could not cure him.]]> 2020-01-19 01:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433327900 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433330022 Sebestyen, Victor. Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. New York, Pantheon, 2017]]> 2020-01-19 01:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433330022 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433332379 One of Lenin's worst mistakes was that he made no provisions for who would run the country after he died. Lenin knew that Stalin couldn't handle running the country well and according to Lenin the Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Lenin says, "I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution" (Sebestyen 494).  And people knew that the line between Lenin and Stalin wasn't political, it was personal. That's why he wanted Trotsky as the next leader. The next 10 months were agonizing for Lenin, after one of his last strokes, he could only say a handful of words.]]> 2020-01-19 02:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433332379 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433332502 Lenin and Nadya kept getting reports from his partners of what was happening, and this was when a love affair started. According to Lenin the Man the Terror and the Master of Terror it states, "Predictably the Okhrana and the French Police were well aware of the relationship" (Sebestyen 234). He would continue to cheat with Inessa but mainly in Paris. At this time, Lenin was betrayed by a close man by the name of Malinovsky. He was a double agent and the Okhrana paid him. When Lenin found out he flipped, he knocked over tables and shredded papers and books, tore apart everything. Lenin moved to Poland to be closer to Russia, but in the country itself. But he got in trouble for robbing and put in prison. After released he went back to Switzerland, again, to get more money. ]]> 2020-01-19 02:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433332502 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433333440 The Russian Civil War was between the Red (Revolutionaries) and the Whites (Tsarists). The war raged on for three years taking many lives, making Lenin very sick. This war showed how weak the revolutionaries were. And because of this war many countries tried to escape Russian rule. At many points of the war the Whites would control one country, then the reds took it, then over and over again. The Whites were running out of resources and Lenin led the Red Army to victory.]]> 2020-01-19 02:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433333440 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433335338 Lenin had a Hemorrhagic Stroke. A type of condition where a blood vessel in the brain bursts and the pressure from the vessel kills off the brain. He was pronounced dead on January 21st 1924, 6:50 pm. Lenin's body was moved to a Mausoleum with him wearing a suit, his hands on his stomach looking peaceful. His brain was preserved in alcohol, later it was taking and sliced up to exam it. They said he had a larger brain that accounts for his intelligence, but they found that it was normal. His body can still be visited today.]]> 2020-01-19 02:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433335338 voznydav001 https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433496019 Because of Lenin, the idea of communism was put in place, leading to the Cold War, The People's Republic of China, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cold War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
People's Republic of China: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/prc.html
Korean War: https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
Vietnam War: https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
Cuban Missile Crisis: Youtube: Cuban Missile Crisis in 5 Minutes]]> 2020-01-20 02:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/voznydav001/9a3mu8ncweff/wish/433496019