Voice of the Past: Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin (a pseudonym adopted when in exile and probably derived from the river Lena), delivers a speech on how he thinks the working class can be saved. A Russian theorist, politician and revolutionary that needs no introduction, but who is controversial in the West, like most Russian communists, in light of the 20th century polarisation of an Eastern Bloc in favour of communism (often forcibly) and a Western one in favour of maintaining capitalism (often forcibly). #history #voiceofthepast #Lenin