Vladimir Lenin Lenin was born April 22 1870 in the town of Shimbrisk. His dad was a teacher and his mom was a government education official. He was born into a middle class family. Lenin practiced law at Volga river port of samara. In 1895 he started League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class the consolidation of the city's Marxist groups. On December 7th 1895 Lenin was arrested for conspiring agents the tsar alexander the 3rd he was then imprisoned for fourteen months in solitary confinement Cell 193 of the St. Petersburg Remand Prison. He was then exiled to eastern Siberia. At the end of his exile in 1900, Lenin left Russia and lived in Munich London In November 1905 Lenin returnend to Russia 1917 when Lenin found out about the revolution in Russia he demanded to return but it would he hard because Europe was at war When Lenin cam n to power he gave all the land to the peasants. This doesn't necessarily follow communist ways but Lenin was willing to do a fair compromise when necessary Lenin was a grate leader because he did good for his people he freed them from the tyranny of the tsar and have the land to he people. He did what he believed in and did what was best for Russia