When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
Government of Vladimir Lenin well as being the Chairman of Sovnarkom and sitting on the Council of Labor and Defense, he was on the Central Committee and Politburo of the Communist Party. The only individual to have anywhere near this influence was Lenin's right-hand man, Yakov Sverdlov, although the latter died in March 1919 during a flu pandemic. However, in the Russian public imagination it would be Leon Trotsky who was usually seen as the second-in-command; although Lenin and Trotsky had had differences in the past, after 1918 Lenin came to admire Trotsky's skills as an organizer and his ruthlessness in dealing with the
Lenin in 1918 suffered from ill health. Exactly six months after his appearance in the film and while a sequel was being developed Shchukin died. Lenin in 1918 Lenin in 1918 (, "Lenin v 1918 godu") is a 130-minute-long Soviet propaganda film released in 1939. It gives the background of the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution. The film was directed by Mikhail Romm with E. Aron and I. Simkov as co-directors. The script was written by Aleksei Kapler together with Taisiya Zlatogorova. The shooting started on August 10th 1938 and lasted for eighty-seven days. Shchukin never saw Lenin in real life,