vladimir Lenin
- Was in favour of Brest-Litovsk
- Lost a lot of land due to peace deal that was signed with the Germans
- Council of Peoples Commissars based leadership
- Lenin led the Bolsheviks with Trotsky and Stalin under his reign
- Trotsky looked after the army while Stalin was in charge of propaganda
- Any opposing groups, including the Mensheviks, were made illegal
- A counter revolutionary group was established
After the Civil War:
- In order to spread the revolution through out the world, Lenin put International Communist in place
- Eventually deals were signed with other countries in efforts to rebuild
- The Russians made weapons and other war elements for the Nazi's (Treat of Rapallo) , as well as receiving information of steel manufacturing from them
- Nazi soldiers trained Russian soldiers as they were only allowed a 100 000 man army
- Bolsheviks became the communist party in 1922
- Russia changed to the Soviet Union as well as St Petersburg to Petrograd. then Leningrad... then eventually went back to St. Petersburg