Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Russian Revolutionary, Founder of the Communist party, and first head of
state of the USSR, d. 1924 A.D.
Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
Silver 50 Kopeks, 1922 AD, 27 mm, 10 grams
Petrograd mint (since renamed Leningrad in 1924, and St. Petersburg in 1991)
Born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870, he adopted the pseudonym "Lenin" early in his career. He was the founder of the Russian Communist party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and first head of state of the USSR. He was also a masterly political thinker whose theories became a significant component of Communist thought and influenced all factions of the Marxist movement.