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  • 1 Ruble 1970, Y# 141, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 100th Anniversary of Birth of Vladimir Lenin
  • 1 Ruble 1970, Y# 141, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 100th Anniversary of Birth of Vladimir Lenin
  • 1 Ruble 1970, Y# 141, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 100th Anniversary of Birth of Vladimir Lenin, Proof
  • 1 Ruble 1970, Y# 141, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 100th Anniversary of Birth of Vladimir Lenin, Proof
  • 1 Ruble 1970, Y# 141, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 100th Anniversary of Birth of Vladimir Lenin, Edge
Description

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (1870–1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign orchestrated by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1921. In 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-orientated New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin expressed opposition to the growing power of his successor, Joseph Stalin, before dying at his dacha in Gorki.

Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism-Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement.

Obverse

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union (fourth version, 1956–1991), text "One hundred years since the birth o V. I. Lenin" and denomination.

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is composed of a sickle and a hammer on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat wrapped around a ribbon with 15 turns. At the top of the Emblem is a five-pointed star.

СТО ЛЕТ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ В.И.ЛЕНИНА ★
СС СР
ОДИН
РУБЛЬ

Reverse

Lenin's head right, dates below.

1870-1970

Edge

Pattern of stars and dots

Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Copper Nickel Zinc
Weight 12.8 g
Diameter 31 mm
Thickness 2.4 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Leningrad Mint (LMD)

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