Immediately after Lenin, the USSR was ruled by a triumvirate of Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, while a power struggle over supremacy went on among Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin. Eventually Stalin won over the others and became sole dictator.
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Lenin became Russia's leader because Nicholas II was kicked off the throne by Lenin's followers.
Russia never "became know as the Soviet Union." However, when it formed the Soviet Union, its name had been changed from Russia to the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of Russia from 1917 to 1922. He was a communist, and he turned Russia into the Soviet Union. Lenin was predecessor to Stalin.
Russia became first a communist state and later the largest Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union.
Never, prime minister role (Premier) was introduced in 1990s in modern Russia. Lenin (Ulyanov), leader of communist revolution, became self-proclaimed leader in 1917 and remained in power until his death in April 1926