Lenin wanted the Communist revolution and movement to spread to all neighboring countries. The Communist Internationale, also known as the Comintern, was designed to coordinate and support efforts by Marxist/socialist revolutionary groups in other countries to do this.
Lenin created the Communist International in order to have an organization that would coordinate socialist and communist revolutionary movements in as many countries worldwide as possible. This was in keeping with Marxian doctrine that a single true communist state could not survive if surrounded by capitalist states.
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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.
No, Lenin did not achieve world-wide communist revolution.
Lenin led communist revolutionaries to overthrow the provisional government of Russia in November 1917. This led to Russia having the first communist government in the world.
Technically speaking, no one ever set up a communist state as Karl Marx defined communism. Vladimir Lenin, after the October Russian Revolution, set up a socialist state in Russia, expecting that at some time in the future it would become a true communist state. It was referred to as a communist state because he had the name of the Bolshevik Party changed to the Communist Party in 1918.
Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin