1. The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was helpful toward that end and pledged monetary support.

2. Leningrad was named after Russian leader Vladimir Lenin.

3. In October, 1917, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin organized an armed uprising to overthrow the Provisional Government.

4. 1917 - Vladimir Lenin arrives at Petrograd Station in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.

5. Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin had cautioned that Stalin was rude and intolerant.

6. After Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his brain was preserved in a formaldehyde solution.

7. In that way - and others - Obama reminds me of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state.

8. Fanya Kaplan , an assassin , shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.