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BORN IN SIMBIRSK,RUSSIA, IN 1870
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LENIN AND OTHER REVOLUTIONARIES RETURN TO RUSSI FROM GERMANY.
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Bolsheviks over throw provisional government led by Alexander Kerensky, with workers and sailors capturing government buildings and the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and eventually taking over Moscow.
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SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
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DIES FROM A STROKE; HIS TOMB IN RED SQUARE BECOMES A SHRINE