Nikolai Lenin: The Name, the Man and Why the Spelling Matters
Nikolai Lenin is the same person as Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary who led the Bolsheviks to power in 1917 and founded the Soviet Union. The name “Nikolai” was not his birth name. He was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, and “Lenin” was one of several pseudonyms he used to evade the Tsarist police…