"Both Lenin and Stalin adopted well-structured economic policies in order to build their country into a well-established and powerful state" Robin Ronne Both Lenin and Stalin had enormous power to change Russia as the leaders of the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat'; the question is how did they succeed in giving economic power to Russian people. The first solid economic policy instituted in Russia after the abdication of the Tsar and the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional …showed first 75 words of 1599 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1599 total…remember though is that it was Stalin and the Stalinists who wrote the history of the USSR and the information I have presented may not be wholly accurate. Lenin took Russia from a struggling country with few disgustingly wealthy and most unbelievably poor to a nation with a budding economy. Lenin brought Russia through a civil war and out of an economic slump. Stalin took the budding economy and used force to make it blossom.