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By that point, though, Lenin had lost a great majority of his childhood privledges. His father died at 15, and he was expelled from university for his radicalism and participation in demonstrations. By the time Lenin would have had this picture taken, there's no confusion about his material wealth.

I'm not sure bourgeois was the right label either, though his family was certainly well-off.

Yet another way in which capitalism creates the conditions of it's own overthrow: it creates a class of people with the time and resources to study and organize against it, and some of them do.