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Vladimir Illyich Lenin

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The Resume

    (April 22, 1870-January 21, 1924)
    Birth name was Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
    AKA Nikolai Lenin
    First Soviet leader
    Helped establish the Communist International (Comintern) (1919)
    Began the formal establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (1922)
    Wrote 'Materialism and Empiriocriticism' (1908), 'The Development of Capitalism in Russia' (1899)
    One of the founding members of the Bolsheviks

Why he might be annoying:

    In September of 1887, he enrolled at Kazan University. In December of the same year he was arrested for participating in student protests and was expelled.
    His older brother, Alexander, was executed for conspiring to assassinate the Czar (1887).
    He became active in a Marxist study group (1893).
    He was exiled to Siberia, because he traveled to Europe in 1895 to meet exiled revolutionaries (1897).
    He was elected twice as president of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), first in 1906 and next in 1907.
    He and the Bolsheviks blamed the Czar and the royal family for most of the countries problems.
    He encouraged revolutions, where many people were killed by communist militants.

Why he might not be annoying:

    His father died when he was very young.
    He studied the literature of the earlier generations of Russian revolutionaries and began to study law (1888-89).
    He gained the license to practice law (1892).
    He suffered from strokes beginning in 1922 until he died of his fourth one in 1924.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 265 Votes: 24.15% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 319 Votes: 61.76% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 296 Votes: 56.42% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 1817 Votes: 48.38% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 310 Votes: 47.10% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1279 Votes: 45.58% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2123 Votes: 61.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 644 Votes: 93.79% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 393 Votes: 65.14% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 1275 Votes: 62.35% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 1604 Votes: 61.22% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 929 Votes: 68.78% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 920 Votes: 80.98% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 310 Votes: 68.71% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 566 Votes: 68.55% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 236 Votes: 72.46% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 93 Votes: 74.19% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 164 Votes: 76.83% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 455 Votes: 74.95% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 552 Votes: 69.38% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 1590 Votes: 70.63% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 833 Votes: 68.67% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2093 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 43 Votes: 83.72% Annoying