Vladimir Lenin

• Agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Established leadership under Council of People's Comissars
• Main Bolshevik leader (with Stalin and Leon Trotsky)
• in charge of propaganda
• redistributed land
• nationalized all banks
• private accounts were confiscated
• foreign trade became state monopoly
• opposition groups were made illegal (including the Mensheviks)
• formed a counter-revolutionary committee 

Summary

Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks and was the one who signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In many ways, he tried to nationalize Russia in his own way. He also introduced the NEP (New Economic Policy) when he realized that war communism wasn't successful as he thought.