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 made illegal (including the Mensheviks)
- Formed a counter-revolutionary committee