For 10 points, name this leader in the Russian Revolution, the first premier of the Soviet Union, preceding Joseph Stalin.
This ruler responded to the Kronstadt rebellion by taxing farmers instead of requisitioning their crops in his New Economic Policy. He wrote the April Theses on a train from Switzerland as he returned from exile in 1917, after Alexander (*) Kerensky's provisional government was forced out by this man's Bolshevik forces. For 10 points, name this leader in the Russian Revolution, the first premier of the Soviet Union, preceding Joseph Stalin.
This ruler responded to the Kronstadt rebellion by taxing farmers instead of requisitioning their crops in his New Economic Policy.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov)