Vladimir Lenin
*Agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
-Peace deal they signed with germany, lost a lot of land due to it
*Established leadership under Council of People's Commisassrs
*Main Bolshevik leaders were Lenin, Leon Trotsky (In charge of the army), Josheph Stalin (In charge of propaganda)
*Redistributed the land
*Nationalized all banks (no more private accounts)
*Foreign trade became state monopoly (All proceeds went back to the country)
*All opposition groups were made illegal (including the Mensheviks)
*Formed a counter-revolutionary committee
*Sent them out to Siberia - if you were seen as a counter-revolutionary
Lenin after the Civil War
*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
*Let german men train in the russian army since they were only allowed 100,000 men in their army
*1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
*Russia became the Soviet Union
*St.Petersburg ->Petrograd becomes Leningrad-> back to St.Petersburg
-Peace deal they signed with germany, lost a lot of land due to it
*Established leadership under Council of People's Commisassrs
*Main Bolshevik leaders were Lenin, Leon Trotsky (In charge of the army), Josheph Stalin (In charge of propaganda)
*Redistributed the land
*Nationalized all banks (no more private accounts)
*Foreign trade became state monopoly (All proceeds went back to the country)
*All opposition groups were made illegal (including the Mensheviks)
*Formed a counter-revolutionary committee
*Sent them out to Siberia - if you were seen as a counter-revolutionary
Lenin after the Civil War
*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
*Let german men train in the russian army since they were only allowed 100,000 men in their army
*1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
*Russia became the Soviet Union
*St.Petersburg ->Petrograd becomes Leningrad-> back to St.Petersburg
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Summary
Lenin was brought in by the Germans to stop the war however he then turned into creating communism which scared them most.