Lenin the icon: A 1929 Laz language newspaper featuring Lenin's writing
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Painting of Lenin in front of the Smolny Institute by Isaak Brodsky
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Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), drawing by Nikolai Bukharin, 31 March 1927
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Lenin's lover Nadya.
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Vilén, Lenin bewigged and clean shaven, Finland, 11 August 1917
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Lenin in a police photograph from December 1895.
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Lenin and his wife, Nadezhda.
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Comrades under fire—Lenin and Fritz Platten, 1919
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Lenin working in the Kremlin, 1918
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Lenin's funeral by I.Brodsky
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Statue of Lenin outside the Finland Station, Saint Petersburg. Between 1924 and 1991 the city was named Leningrad.
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Trotsky, Lenin and Kamenev at the II Party Congress in 1919
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Pallbearers carrying Lenin's coffin during his funeral, from Paveletsky Rail Terminal to the Labor Temple. Felix Dzerzhinsky at the front with Timofei Sapronov behind him and Lev Kamenev on the left.
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The first issue of Iskra ("Spark"), official organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Edited by Lenin from his base in Geneva, Switzerland, copies would be smuggled into Russia, where it would prove successful in winning support for the Marxist revolutionary cause.
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Lenin's residence during his exile in Zürich, Switzerland, taken in 1920
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Lenin giving a speech.
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Excavation of Red Terror victims outside the headquarters of the Kharkov Cheka, Summer 1919.
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A report from a German secret agent to Russia informing about Lenin's arrival to Petrograd and his actions being fully in line with German expectations
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