They both had great impacts on Russia. Lenin played a part that wanted to have everyone equal when Stalin tricked people to get in control. Stalin got to power and dictated, Lenin was a revolutionary who believed in communism. Stalin wanted socialism.
Stalin's main ambition was to have complete control over Russia. If you are referring to his goal in killing 20 million of his own people, it was to get rid of his enemies. He was a diagnosed paranoid.
Leon Trotsky.
Control of Russia passed to Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Gregory Zinoviev acting together. Gradually, Stalin ousted the others and took complete control by 1929.
That would be Josef Stalin.
Joseph Stalin was the leader of Russia in 1939.
Joseph Stalin was a tyrant that seemed to take pleasure in killing and taking more control. He was said to "rule with an iron fist."
After Lenin had his stroke Russia was led by a troika of three people, Joseph Stalin, Gregory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. Stalin did not gain complete control of the country until 1929.
Gregory and Stalin are two separate people. Joseph Stalin was the ruthless leader of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Paul Gregory is a writer who wrote a book about Stalin.
At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of Russia during WW2 and the Holocaust.
the answer is not who but what. Josef Stalin was the totalitarian ruler of Russia