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(a) When the civil war ended in Lenin's favour, he sought to fulfill his two major priorities to eliminate capitalism and to industrialize Russia rapidly. (b) He organised the economy like an army. State appointed managers operated the various functions of the economy under orders from a high command. (c) The New Economic Policy was started whereby the peasants were allowed to keep surplus production after payment of tax. Private trade was allowed in a limited measure. (d) Lenin, on the political front banned 'factionalism' within the communist party. Anybody who held a different view from the official party line was either expelled or shot dead. (e) Lenin died in 1924. He succeeded in destroying the feudal structure in Russia and in establishing the world's first communist state. Lenin had expected communist uprisings to occur in many other countries of the world which could not happen. This left the USSR isolated in world affairs. His untimely demise led to a power struggle within the party which culminated in the victory of Joseph Stalin.
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