- Lenin set up the comintern (communist international) to spread the revolution worldwide
- Lead to signing deals with countries to rebuild
- Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of versailles)
- Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany
- 1922 bolshevik Party became the Communist Party
- Russia became the Soviet Union
- Lenin was shot in 1921 - never fully recovers
- Died in Jan. 1924