16 April 1917 A.D. PETROGRAD, RUSSIA: Vladmir Lenin Returns to Take Reins of Russian Revolution
16 April 1917 A.D. PETROGRAD, RUSSIA: Vladmir Lenin Returns to Take Reins of Russian Revolution Editors. “ 1917 – Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. ” This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/april-16/ . Accessed 15 Apr 2015. 1917 – Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. One month before, Czar Nicholas II had been forced from power when Russian army troops joined a workers’ revolt in Petrograd, the Russian capital. Born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870, Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander III. He studied law and took up practice in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), where he associated with revolutionary Marxist c...