No: Stalin was an authoritarian dictator. The system introduced by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917 was state capitalism. Communism involves the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society.
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Lenin and Trotsky in the 1917 October Revolution inroduced communism in Russia. When Joseph Stalin after years came on the political and administrative arena, communism was already there for him to pollute and abuse.
No. Vladimir Lenin introduced his version of Marx's communism in 1917. While Stalin was part of the group behind Lenin, Lenin was the main architect of the imposition of a pseudo-communist system in Russia. When Stalin took over after Lenin's death, he just made it even more unlike true Marxian communism.
After the Russian Civil war (from 1918-1921), Whites vs. Reds, Lenin took over power in 1922. He promised the Russian people "Peace, Land, Bread." He adapted Karl Marx idea of equality but had to change it so it would work for an agriculture nation (Germany, were Marx was from, was already industrialized unlike Russia)