Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was the major leader of the Bolshevik Party in Russia and the main strategist of the Russian Revolution of October 1917, in which the working class overthrew capitalism and took state power. Leon Trotsky, upon hearing of Lenin’s death in 1924, said: “Lenin is no more, but Leninism remains. What was immortal in Lenin—his teaching, his work, his method, his example—lives on in us, in the party which he founded, in the first workers’ state he led and guided. … In all of us there lives a small part of Lenin, and this is the best part of each one of us.”
