Which communist leader took control of Russia in a violent coup?

Vladimir Lenin launched a coup d’état, known as the October Revolution, against the Russian provisional government, and formed a new government with Lenin as its dictator.

** After Lenin died, Joseph Stalin became the party leader, thus, the leader of the Soviet Union.

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