Soviet propaganda poster. Text reads, 'Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live'. Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Under his administration, the Russian Empire was dissolved and replaced by the Soviet Union, a one-party socialist state. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images).