The execution of his brother caused Lenin to question and rejection to the government.
Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and leader of the Bolshevik Party who became prominent during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
He was born in 1870 into a middle-class family in Ulyanovsk, Russia. As a teenager, he was politically radicalized following the execution of his older brother in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander III.