What is Vladimir Lenin?
{{family name hatnote|Ilyich|Ulyanov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use British English|date=January 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Vladimir Lenin | native_name = {{nobold|Владимир Ленин}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Lenin in 1920 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Lenin in 1920 | order = 1st | office = Leader of the Soviet Union | president = [[Mikhail Kalinin]] | premier = ''Himself'' (from 1923) | term_start = 30 December 1922 | term_end = 21 January 1924 | predecessor = ''Position established'' | successor = [[Joseph Stalin]] | order1 = 1st | office1 = Premier of the Soviet Union | president1 = Mikhail Kalinin | term_start1 = 6 July 1923 | term_end1 = 21 January 1924 | predecessor1 = ''Office established'' | successor1 = [[Alexei Rykov]] | office2 = Chairman of the [[Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Council of People's Commissars of the Russian&nbsp;SFSR]] | term_start2 = 8 November 1917 | term_end2 = 21 January 1924 | predecessor2 = ''Office established'' | successor2 = Alexei Rykov | birth_date = 22 April 1870 | birth_name = Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | birth_place = [[Simbirsk]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1924|1|21|1870|4|22|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Gorki Leninskiye|Gorki]], [[Russian SFSR]], Soviet Union | death_cause = | resting_place = [[Lenin's Mausoleum]], Moscow | party = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]] (from 1912) | otherparty = {{plainlist| *[[RSDLP]] (1898{{nbnd}}1912; [[Bolshevik]] faction from 1903) *[[League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class|SBORK]] (1895{{nbnd}}1898) }} | spouse = {{marria