While Lenin was not the father of communism but did bring communism to Russia. Karl Marx was the original father of communism but while Lenin was in prison he planned how to bring communism to Russia. “I have a plan that has occupied my mind ever since I was arrested, and the more I think of it the more interested I become. I have long been engaged on a certain economic problem (on the sale of manufactured goods on the home market). I had gathered some literature on the subject, drawn up a plan of operations, and had even written something, expecting to publish as a book” -Lenin. Lenin bringing communism to Russia is significant because as most socialist believed, it was inevitable that communism would one day come to Russia. Many people and