Both Lenin and Stalin adopted well-structured economic policies in order to build their country into a well-established and powerful state" Robin Ronne Both Lenin and Stalin had enormous power to change Russia as the leaders of the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat'; the question is how did they succeed in giving economic power to Russian people. The first solid economic policy instituted in Russia after the abdication of the Tsar and the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government was Lenin's policy of War Communism. War Communism was not a policy designed to promote economic stability in Russia. Russia was in civil war and