How successful was lenin in changing russia by 1924?
By 1924 Lenin had been very successful in solving Russia’s problems. Russia’s problems before 1924 can be summarised as a lack of political stability – warring factions attempting to wrest control of the country from the Bolsheviks, economic and agricultural failures, independence movements in some of the fringe areas of the country – leading to self-declared full independence for Ukraine and Georgia. There are plenty of other problems faced by the Bolsheviks, some inherited from the Tsarist regime, and some of their own making and even some ideological problems that Lenin did not / could not resolve, but these are the problems as seen by the Bolsheviks. By 1924 the White armies had been defeated in the Civil War and the warring factions disarmed and rendered politically impotent. Lenin also brought in the ban on factions within the party. This led to a unified party, who did not disagree with each other or with government policies in public. So politically he had achieved stability. T
