20 facts about lenin biography for kids

Lenin's ideas became known as Leninism. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was an education official technically, his father's job made him and his family noblemen. Lenin began studying politics in high school. In , the year that Lenin was doing his final gymnasium exams, his father died, his brother Alexander was hanged for his part in a bomb plot to kill Tsar Alexander III , and their sister Anna was sent to Tatarstan.

This made Lenin furious, and he promised to get revenge for his brother's death. The family drama didn't stop Lenin from completing the exams with high results: he got the second-highest grade in his class. Lenin excelled in school and learned the Latin and Greek languages.

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In , he was thrown out of Kazan State University because he protested against the Tsar who was the king of the Russian Empire. He continued to read books and study ideas by himself, and in he got a license to become a lawyer. While he studied law in St. Petersburg he learned about the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , who were both philosophers from Germany.

Karl Marx's thoughts were called Marxism. To talk or write about Marxism positively was illegal in Russia, and Lenin was arrested for that and sent to prison in Siberia. This punishment was harsh because Siberia is very cold and isolated, and almost impossible to escape. In he wrote a book he called The Development of Capitalism in Russia.

In , Lenin was set free from prison and allowed to go back home.