- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870 – 1924
- Find out what the hell a Kalmyk is.
- Look up the book "What is To Be Done?" (1902)
- "By their social status the founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia."
- Also find out what the hell intelligentsia is, though it sounds a lil self-explanatory.
- Bkmrked Alexander Pushkin search.
- Bkmrked Ivan Turgenev search.
- Bkmrked Nikolay Nekrasov search.
- Bkmrked Vissarion Belinsky search.
- Bkmrked Alexander Herzen search.
- Bkmrked Dmitry Pisarev search.
- Bkmrked Nikolay Dobrolyubov search.
- Eldest brother hanged for an assassination attempt against the Tsar.
- Bkmrked Nikolay Chernyshevsky's novel "What is To Be Done?" (1863)
- Studied and practiced law.
- Bkmrked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Struggle_for_the_Emancipation_of_the_Working_Class
- Arrested for plotting against the Tsar, then sent into exile about 14 months solitary confinement.
...and the rest will sadly have to wait. I find Lenin boring while I am in this mindset, though I find it psychologically interesting how (Wikipedia's portrayal) points to the root of his radical actions as a cause of losing his brother and sister.
