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As I understand it the Leninist Coup (aka the great October Revolution) was a great gamble which was promoted mainly by Lenin. Had he not been around for whatever reason I am assuming a somewhat chaotic Russia.
I also believe that Stalin had certain bureacratic skills and had once been a Menshevik (as wells as a thug and crook)