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=__﻿karl marx__= Karl Marx (1818-1883) ranks among the most important thinkers of the 1800's. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the town of Trier In 1843, Marx moved to Paris. There, Marx became friends with the German journalist Friedrich Engels. With Engels, he wrote his best-known work, the //Communist Manifesto// (1848).

In 1849, Marx fled to London. In London, Marx wrote his most ambitious work, //Das Kapital.// Only the first volume was published during his lifetime, in 1867. Engels edited the second and third volumes after Marx died on March 14, 1883. They were published in 1885 and 1894. =__**Nicholas**__= nicholas was last czar of russia he ruled from 1894 to 1917. nicholas believed a czar should have absolute power. nicholas wasborn in st. petersburg on may 18, 1868 after taking the throne. in 1915, nicholas took direct command of the army. =**__ Josef stalin __**= joseph wa a dictator of the union of the soviet socialist republics, also called the soviet union, 1929 until 1953. stalin was born on december 21, 1879, in gori, a town near tbilisi in georgia, in the southwestern part of the russian empire. stalin died on march 5, 1953. =__** Leon Trotsky **__= Trotzky, was a leader of the Bolshevik revolution that established a Communist government in Russia in 1917. Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1879. After two years of revolutionary activity, he was arrested in 1898 and sent to exile in Siberia. Trotsky returned to Russia in 1905 to take part in an uprising against the czar. Trotsky was jailed for his leadership in the uprising, but he escaped in 1907. =__** Vladimir Lenin **__= lenin was the founder of the communist partyin russia lenin was born April 22, 1870 Simbirsk, russia His real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He changed his name to //Lenin// in 1901. He earned a law degree from St. Petersburg University in 1891. Lenin died on Jan. 21, 1924.

Gregory Zinoviev