AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): CPI-M on Friday observed the Birth anniversary of great communist leader V.I. Lenin all over the state. The programme began with offering of floral tribute on portrait of V.I. Lenin at CPI-M party offices in the morning.

CPI-M state secretary Bijan Dhar and others offered floral tribute in the portrait of communist leader V.I. Lenin followed by the hoisting of party flag at the premises of the party office.

Vladimir Lenin 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. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his political theories are known as Leninism.

Lenin played a leading role in the October Revolution of 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government and establishing a one-party state under the new Communist Party. His government abolished Russia's elected Constituent Assembly, withdrew from the First World War by signing a punitive treaty with the Central Powers, and granted temporary independence to non-Russian nations under Russian control. Ruling by decree, it redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalized banks and large-scale industry. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign orchestrated by the Cheka; tens of thousands were killed and many others interned in concentration camps.