Lenin's Problems after the October Revolution, how did he deal with them?

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…was left with a foreign war to end, and a domestic one to quell. Both terminated victoriously only on an ideological level. The massive devastation that the new government confronted was aggravated by harsh war communism policy. With the gradual increase of Lenin's New Economic Policy came controversy and some emergency relief. Ultimately at the time of Lenin's death the Soviet Union was still plagued, though perhaps not as severely, by economic and social distress.