Lenin had finally come into power and immediately creating his new form of government using the ideas of Karl Marx as a basis. After the Bolsheviks coming to power and WWI, Russia was in total disarray. Lenin had introduced a new economic policy, or NEP to help boost Russias economy, even though it went against the fundamentals of their party. The NEP had a small-scale production with a small state of capitalism to quickly boost agriculture in the economy. The life that was created by Lenin for the citizens of Russia were horrible as he promised. The Cheka were first established after Lenin came to power and his or her job was to remove anyone the government saw as a threat. The exact number murdered is usually estimated at between 100,000 and 500,000, but the chaotic wartime conditions make the accounting especially difficult. But execution was not the Cheka's only tool; it also pioneered the development of the modern slave labor (or "concentration") camp (econfaculty.gmu.edu). Lenin had wanted to collectivize all agriculture, which would have kept the Peasants of Russia poor. In trying to do this; a so-called, Bread war broke out with several kulaks, wealthy, rural landowners who were against the communist party during the revolution, revolts throughout Russia. After the Civil war, Russia was hit with a devastating famine. Lenin did not collectivize agriculture but he did leave it open for other leaders to try.
Sadly, Lenin died in 1924 and soon after Joseph Stalin came to power several years later in 1929. He first exterminated the NEP and the land handed out to the citizens that Lenin had created while he was still in power. .
In the agricultural sector, Stalins introduction of collectivization essentially destroyed the class of kulaks, or wealthy independent farmers who gained their status from the Stolypin reform in 1906 (ibatpv.org). Stalin wanted to quickly modernize Russia into a military powerhouse.