The committees goal in the beginning was to get rid of all the "enemies" of the revolution; but this eventually led to killing innocent people. Some could say the committees goal later on was to scare people into not revolting against them; so many innocent people were getting beheaded that everyone feared for their life during this period.
The correct answer here would be Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution that brought communism to power in Russia and established the Soviet Union. Lenin's "New Economic Policy" serves as an example of central planning to bring everything under the central government's control.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the philosophical founders of communist ideas back in the 19th century.
Josef Stalin was the totalitarian leader that took over the communist leadership in the USSR after Lenin's death.
