Lenin and the USSR

4a. Lenin adapted Marxism to conditions in Russia because the country was in a state that wouldn't have been ideal for Marx's concepts. Marx had predicted that the unhappy working class would overthrow the capitalist government, as they were the getting shorthanded. However, this wasn't the case in Russia, as Russia lacked a large urban proletariat. So Lenin set up his own carefully constructed group, called the Bolsheviks, or the majority to start the revolution 4…

…were owned and operated by groups of peasants. 2c. kulak: wealthy peasants whom Stalin sought to destroy. 3. Lenin's economic policies changed because at first all the money was the state's money, capitalism was eliminated. However this and other factors, like the war, left the economy in ruins. In order to rebuild it, Lenin established the New Economy Plan, which allowed small business owners and peasants to make small profits. This got the economy moving again.