VLADIMIR LENIN
Lenin was a extremist radical that had been banished from Russia up until the Russian Revolution when he sought out to employ his own version of Marxism which Lenin had to adopt to the Russian environment and culture called Leninism. He was the first to implement communism in any nation and is the father of Russian Communism. During the Revolution he lead the Bolsheviks, and helped spark a "revolutionary nationalism of the poor" in Russia. His goal was to orchestrate the overthrow of the existing government by force and seize power on behalf of the proletariat and then implement a dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship of the proletariat is theoretically to be governor by a decentralized system of proletarian direct democracy in which workers hold political power through local councils known as soviets. Lenin gained control on October 24, 1917 and dissolved Provisional Government, he then installed the New Socialist Order (NSO). While on campaign he promised the people "Peace, Land, and Bread." Which meant that he was going to take Russia out of WWI, he was going to redistribute the land back to the commerce, and end the food shortage in Russia. After gaining power he pulled Russia out of WWI, and peace between Germany and Russia was restored after the Treaty of Brest-litovsk. He returned all the farmland back to the peasants, and implemented his Soviet ruined government (the dictatorship of the proletariat). Lenin'e policies were not accepted by the upper class though, because they didn't benefit them at all. After the NSO failed due to Civil War and "war communism," Lenin implemented CHEKA (secret police) to restore order and combat resisters. He then creates the New Economic Policy (NEP), which was created to fix the problems with equality in economics not working due to no competition and the problems with NSO. It brought a small amount of capitalism and was successful and boosted the economy. Lenin in 1922 created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the USS, in which is a response to the vast amount of nationalities . Soviets governed each Republic, and the capitol moved back to Moscow. He changed the Bolsheviks to the Communist Part, Lenin's new policies were improving and by 1928, production was where it was before 1914. In 1924, Lenin died after a series of strokes and no successor was named until 1928. Joseph Stalin eventually wins support from the communist to succeed Lenin and he turns Russia into a Totalitarian state. Vladimir Lenin was important to the Russian Revolution because he led the uprising against the autocracy Russia used to be and set up a functioning government for the proletariat.