Lenin

(Soviet Leader)

1917 – 1924

• Goal: create a classless society/production in hands of the people
• Allow some private business
• Lets peasants have some land
• Standard of living rises for workers and peasants.

Stalin

• Made USSR Industrial Monster
• Command Economy (got control)

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  Agriculture
• Standard of living of falls for peasants and workers

Similarities

• Time in Siberian exile
• Communist Party leaders
• Secret Police
• World Wide Communist Revolution