Vladimir Lenin
- Agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Established leadership under council of People's Commissars
- Main Bolshevik leaders were Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
- Redistributed the Land
- Nationalized all banks
- Private accounts were confiscated
- Foreign trade became state monopoly
- All opposition groups were make illegal
- Formed a counter-revolutionary Committee
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin