The Bolsheviks, led by established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

(U. S. S. R) in 1922

a. Karl Marx

b. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Mikhail Gorbachev

d. Boris Yeltsin

The correct answer is letter B.

Explanation: Lenin was a Russian politician and revolutionary, propagator of communist ideology. He was one of the founders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), of which he became the first head of state. His political theory, "Leninism", influenced the formation and orientation of leftist parties worldwide. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born April 22, 1870 in Simbirsk, present-day Ulyanovsk (renamed in 1924 to honor the politician), in Russia.