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4) What were the problems facing Lenin after the October Revolution and how successfully did he deal with them?         The initial difficulties faced by the new Soviet Union were so severe that its survival seemed almost miraculous" . The remains of the czarist regime left Lenin to face a country wrought with war, devastated economically. Russia's involvement in World War I, followed by its Civil War, wide spread famine and a change in political and social ideology …

…was left with a foreign war to end, and a domestic one to quell. Both terminated victoriously only on an ideological level. The massive devastation that the new government confronted was aggravated by harsh war communism policy. With the gradual increase of Lenin's New Economic Policy came controversy and some emergency relief. Ultimately at the time of Lenin's death the Soviet Union was still plagued, though perhaps not as severely, by economic and social distress.