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Lenin 

Full name: Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Original name: Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
Born: April 10 1870, Simbirsk, Russia
Died: January 21, 1924, Gorki, near Moscow
Early Life: He adopted the last name Lenin in 1901 while doing underground party work. His family was well-educated, and Lenin, the third of six children, was close to his parents and siblings. School was a central part of Lenin’s childhood. His parents, both educated and highly cultured, invoked a passion for learning in their children, especially Vladimir. A tragic situation came in 1887, when Lenin’s older brother, Aleksandr, was arrested and executed for being a part of a group planning to assassinate Emperor Alexander III.
Political party: Bolshevik party, later the Soviet Union

Stalin

Full name: Joseph Stalin
Original name: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Born: Gori, Georgia on 21st December 1879
Died: 5 March 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha, Kuntsevo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Early life: At 7 he got smallpox, leaving his face scarred. A few years later he was injured in a carriage accident which left arm slightly deformed. The other village children treated him cruelly, instilling in him a sense of inferiority. Because of this, Joseph began a quest for greatness and respect, this lead him lead to having a crawl streak in him.
Political Party: Communist Party






Trotsky

Full name: Leon Trotsky
Original name: Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Born: 7 November 1879 in Yanovka, Ukraine, then part of Russia
Died: On 20 August 1940, an assassin called Ramon Mercader, acting on Stalin's orders, stabbed Trotsky with an ice pick, fatally wounding him. He died the next day.
Early life: Trotsky became involved in underground activities as a teenager. He was soon arrested, jailed and exiled to Siberia where he joined the Social Democratic Party. Eventually, he escaped Siberia and spent the majority of the next 15 years abroad, including a spell in London.
Political party: Social Democrats, later the Menshevik party


Kerensky

Original name: Alexander Kerensky
Born: 4 May 1881, Ulyanovsk, Russia
Died: 11 June 1970, New York City, New York, United States
Early life: In 1905 Kerensky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR) and became editor of the radical newspaper, Burevestik. He was soon arrested and sent into exile. He returned to St. Petersburg in 1906 and found work as a lawyer. Over the next few years he developed a reputation for defending radicals in court who had been accused of political offenses.
Political party: Socialist Revolutionary Party

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