Vladimir Lenin
- Agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Established leadership under Council of People’s Comissars
- Main Bolshevik leaders were Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
- Redistributed the land
- Nationalized all banks (No private accounts)
- Private accounts were confiscated
- Foreign trade became state monopoly
- All opposition groups were made illegal (including the Mensheviks)
- Formed a counter-revolutionary committee
- Lenin set up the comintern (communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
- Led to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of Versailles)
- Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
- Russia became the Soviet Union
Vladamir Lenin pretty much came into power at the perfect time, and that was exactly what communist Russia needed at the time. He had agreed to many things that the people wanted which made him a very popular leader in Russia.