1. What was Lenin's position on World War I?

tis deluding the working class and the labouring masses by asserting that it is waging war in defence of the fatherland, freedom, and civilisation, for the liberation of the peoples oppressed by tsardom, for the destruction of reactionary tsardom

he was the leader of the world's first communist state

Explanation:

the bolsheviks seized power of the Gov't and proclaimed Soviet rule.