LIFE OF VLADIMIR LENIN - Russian Communist Revolutionary, Politician and Political Theorist. Head of Government Soviet Union from 1922 until his death. Photo Shows: Lenin sitting in the Presidium of the first Congress of the Communist International. The first Congress of the Communist International assembled in Moscow. It was attended by the representatives of 30 countries. At one of the sittings of the Congress Lenin delivered a report on bourgeois democracy and proletarian dictatorship. March 1919 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies