100 Years Birth of Lenin Badge

$20.00

1 in stock

Description

Vintage Pin issued in 1970 to commemorate 100 years since the birth of the Father of Communism Lenin.  1870-1970.  Measures 2.5cm W x 3cm H.

The year 1970 – 100 years since the birth of Lenin, was celebrated by 241 million Russians and international visitors.  Many souveniers were produced, including this pin.  Karen from Shop 5 has about 50 different pins in stock from this significant occasion.  Please contact us if you are interested in more & we’ll get extra photos to you.  Most are priced btween $5 & $15 each.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.  He was born April 1870 and died in January 1924.  Under his administration Russia and later the Soviet Union became a one party socialist state, governed by the Soviet Communist Party.  A Marxist, he developed a variant of the Communist ideology known as Leninism.

Under Lenin, Russia withdrew from WWI and promoted world revolution through the Communist International.  Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign that resulted in tens of thousands killed or interned in concentration camps.  Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin as leader, when Lenin died.

Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until it’s dissolution in 1991.  He is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics accuse him of ordering political repression and mass killings in his ‘dictatorship’.  Whilst Lenin was a dictator, it would only be under Stalin that the Soviet Union became the dictatorship of one man.

The cult personality of Lenin resulted in statues erected in almost every village, his face adorned postage stamps, crockery, posters, front pages of Soviet newspapers.  Places where he had lived or stayed were converted into museums.  Libraries, streets, farms, museums, towns and regions were named after him.  The city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in 1924.  The Order of Lenin was established as one of the country’s highest decorations.