Portrait of Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Lenin

Head of the Soviet government, 1917 to 1924

Led the Bolshevik Revolution and founded the world’s first communist state. His rule included the Red Terror and civil war, followed by the market-friendly New Economic Policy.

Vladimir Lenin sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority and strongly secular on religion.

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Where Vladimir Lenin sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Vladimir Lenin

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19103%Ron Paul US Representative from Texas, 1997 to 20133%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 19803%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 19953%

Political views closest to Vladimir Lenin

Marxism-LeninismAims at a classless society through revolution and a single party ruling on behalf of…98%TrotskyismA Marxist current that backs world revolution and workers' democracy and opposes…96%MaoismA Marxist-Leninist current built on peasant-based revolution and mass mobilization under…89%Council communismArgues that workers' councils should run society directly and rejects both vanguard…70%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Unknown, presumably official, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.