 He had little interest in farm management, and his mother soon sold the land, keeping the house as a summer home.In September 1889, the Ulyanov family moved to the city of Samara, where Lenin joined Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle.There, Lenin fully embraced Marxism and produced a Russian language translation of Marx and Friedrich Engels's 1848 political pamphlet, "The Communist Manifesto".