Stalin died 1953, on the same day as composer Sergei Prokofiev
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Joseph Stalin reversed Lenin's New Economic Policy and instituted the Five Year Plans.Joseph Stalin began the Five-Year Plans.
Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin
At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.
Joseph Stalin gained more power than any other person after Lenin died. In the last year of Lenin's life, Stalin led Russia along with Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev. Then Stalin gradually ousted Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Zinoviev and Kamenev from consideration as Lenin's sole successor. In 1929, Stalin became the sole power in the Soviet Union.
Stalin's chief was Vladimir Lenin during the years before the Russian Revolution and until Lenin's death.