The Blue Rider Painting by Wassily Kandinsky

Lenin was one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century. He founded the Soviet Union, once a most powerful country among Super powers. He organized the peasants and workers of Tsarist Russia for a Communist revolution and in 1917, overthrew the Tsarist regime in Russia. By the 1917 Russian revolution, Lenin gave practical shape to the ideas of Marx and Engels. ‘Lenin is the pseudonym that the great Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov assumed for reasons of secrecy.