There was trade, prices, wages, revolts, and or being driven from their homes or massacred.
In response to the Revolution of 1905, Czar Nicholas II agreed to establish an elected parliament.
It was Lenin.
It cannot be Stalin, because Lenin is his predecessor and it is with Lenin that the central planning and communism was introduced to what was then Russia.
Karl Marx and Engels created together communism, but didn't introduce it specifically to Russia. They wrote their ideas and they spread all around the world and Lenin was inspired by them.
Napoleon had invaded Spain proving how weak it was, leading country's to revolt after years of discontent.