Vladimir Ilβich Lenin was born on April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), Russia. A prominent revolutionary leader and political theorist, Lenin was a key figure in the development of Marxist thought and played a crucial role in the Russian Revolution of 1917. His ideas and actions significantly shaped the course of Soviet history and communist movements worldwide.
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the function of financial capital in generating profits from imperialist colonialism as the final stage of capitalist development to ensure greater profits. The essay is a synthesis of Lenin's modifications and developments of economic theories that Karl Marx formulated in Das Kapital (1867).