As a boy Vladimir was sly and naughty. He broke things and teased the younger kids. However,he got extremely good grades and did exceptionally well in school. When Lenin was fifteen years old, disaster struck his family when Lenin's father died. This took away the family's income and the protection of the father. Two years later his older brother Sasha, was caught with a group revolutionists on a mission to assassinate the Czar Alexander the III. At his trial Sasha said he wanted to gain "political freedom" for the Russian people. As a result of this incident Sasha was hung.

Sasha's death made a deep impression on Lenin, and he decided to continue his brother's work. Lenin saw himself as being on a mission to help the poor and to make Russia into "social- communist government." He wanted to get rid of the different economic classes of people. At the time, most people lived on small farms and were very poor. When th

e crop was bad, they did not have enough to eat. A few people lived very well and were wealthy. They were called the aristocracy. Lenin's family was not poor but he felt that the system was not fair and people should be equal. To achieve these ends Lenin joined the Bolsheviks, a revolutionary movement.

Lenin was a revolutionary who felt that the czar must be overthrown. He worked to form the Bolshevik party which tried to teach the people that there may be a better way to live.

Although, I do not fully agree with Lenin's classless society, I can understand why he wanted it. When Lenin was a child, life under the czar was very difficult. People were poor and did not have freedom, a few were very rich and enjoyed life. I can understand why Lenin became a revolutionary and wanted to overthrow an unfair czar. This is what he was thinking of, when he wrote some of his works. However, he became to extreme when he talked of revolution and overthrowing the government.

While studying for his law degree Lenin also studied Marxism. He began to spread Marxist ideas of a classless society to peasants and workers. He was arrested for these activities and exiled to Siberia. While in exile he wrote about the problems with capitalism and how it was unfair to workers. After his release from Siberia he continued his writings in Switzerland and Germany.

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