“I’m Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), I’m better known as Vladimir Lenin, I was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist who I was the founder and I’m the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until my death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until my death. The founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, I led the October Revolution which established the world's first socialist state. My government won the Russian Civil War and I consolidated power in a one-party state under the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, my developments to the ideology are called Leninism.”