On May 4, 1870, Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born to Ilya Nikolayevich .
On April 16, the Lenin was baptized in .
the local church of St. Nicholas. His parents were described as .
"collegiate councilor Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov and his lawful wife .
Alexandrovna of the Orthodox Faith," (Clark, 3). Many people believe .
Lenin to be a harsh and cruel person who was completely responsible for .
his actions. Others believe that Lenin learned his ways when he was a .
young child and acted them out when he became a young adult. Lenin .
gained his distorted image of the human race when he was a young .
child.
Maria Alexandrovna was the daughter of a doctor from a wealthy .
family in Lubeck, Northern Germany. He inherited the bourgeois .
background from his mother (Clark, 4). Even from the start of his life full of .
battles, Lenin started out in high social standards, leaving him to believe .
the lower classes weren't equivalent to him. Accurate and complete .
information about [his] ancestry has been printed pointed out or has been .
systematically suppressed or over looked [in Russia] because it would .
reveal that Lenin didn't come from the people or from a low social origin .
(Clark, 4). It is true that his father was the son of a shoemaker with .
Kalmuck blood, a Mongolian ancestry that may have accounted for .
Lenin's slanted eyes and high cheekbones (Clark, 4). With Lenin's .
grandfather being of "low" social standings and his mother being of .
"high" social standings, Lenin found himself caught between two worlds in .
some cases. He chose to decline his grandfather's past and side with his .
mother's social class as it would greatly benefit him later in life. .
Richard Pipe is surely wrong to portray Lenin in power merely as a .
psychopath to whom ideas barely mattered and whose fundamental .
motivation was to dominate and to kill (Service, 1). The anti-Semitic case .
of Valentin Solokhin than Lenin's ideology was largely a product of the .
