Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, statesman and Marxist theoretician. His real name was Vladimir Ulyanov Llych. Belonging to the nobility, Lenin was born in Simbirsk in 1870. He studied law at the University of Kazan. By 1890 in St. Petersburg was linked with other young revolutionaries. He was arrested and sent into exile in Siberia, in 1897. Upon his release in 1900 he traveled to Western Europe and later joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1903, the political group was divided into two wings, the Mensheviks (moderate) and the Bolsheviks (radical), the latter under the leadership of Lenin. He opposed the First World War and the November 7, 1917 led a coup (which is remembered as "October Revolution", because Russia still regal in the old Julian calendar) against those who had overthrown the Tsar on March 15 above ("February Revolution").
Nationalized industry, banking and commerce, confronted the armed intervention of the capitalist states and the resistance of the tsarist military, and established the Soviet Union. With his health broken and the consequences of an attack was suffering from paralysis and died in 1924.
Among his theoretical work, an adaptation of the thought of Karl Marx, excel The State and Revolution, What to do, and Empirio Materialism, Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism and The Philosophical Notebooks.
The Third International was a worldwide association of workers' parties created by Lenin. His goal was to encourage Ulyanov revolution worldwide. The groups that went into it adopted, in general, the name of communist parties.