How did Vladimir Lenin's changes affect Russia?

Initially Lenin had idealistic ideas that he wanted to implement (like universal healthcare) and peace, land, and bread...but after an assassination attempt against him, he sought revenge and instituted the "Red Terror" to kill anyone who opposed him...it's estimated that he had over 50,000 people executed between 1918-21. So much for peace...

Some scholars say Lenin had always been an advocate of "mass terror against enemies of the revolution" and was open about his view that the proletarian state was a system of organized violence against the capitalist establishment.

The civil war between the Red Army and the White Army leading up to the defeat of the White Army has been described as one "unprecedented for its savagery," with mass executions and other atrocities committed by both sides. Between battles, executions, famine and epidemics, many millions would perish...so much for peace and bread for that matter...

It was also quite easy for Lenin to deliver land to the peasants. He seized and divided up large estates before Lenin legally recognized this accomplished fact. What the peasants did not realize was that he planned to nationalize the peasants' land as soon as he could get away with it...there goes the land...

Lenin's last promise of bread was the hardest to deliver. His Provisional Government, barely more literate in economics than Lenin, had imposed a price ceiling on food, resulting, as any "bourgeois" economist could have told them, in severe shortages of food in the cities. Arguably this hurt the Provisional Government as much as its failure to sign a separate peace with the Germans; for the price ceiling angered both peasants, forced to sell their grain for a pittance, and workers, unable to obtain food at any price. Lenin merely intensified the brutality of enforcement of the price controls on food; rather than starve in the cities, large percentages of the urban population returned to their family farms in the country. (In the end, even this desperate move would not save many of them from starvation). So much for bread..

After the Tsars, who thought there could be more informants than they had? The Tsar's secret police, the Okhrana, had numbered 15,000, which made it by far the largest body of its kind in the old world. By contrast, the Cheka (Lenin's secret police), within three years of its establishment, had a strength of 250,000 full-time agents." (Paul Johnson, Modern Times) Its powers were vast: now only was the Cheka judge, jury, and executioner, but it acknowledged no law to guide its actions, only "the dictates of revolutionary conscience." Its methods were savage: summary shooting, concentration camps, and forced labor were its three basic weapons. And its potential victims, the "enemies of the people" it was instructed to hunt down, were countless. The work of the Cheka, Russia soon learned, was never done. Censorship was quickly imposed, and it was up to the Cheka to confiscate the literature of dissident workers...these were "reforms"??

The Cheka soon turned to "taking hostages"; i.e., arresting people who they guessed had anti-Bolshevik feelings, and shooting them if their demands were not met or their decrees disobeyed. For example, Lenin's government might decree that the peasants in a certain region must deliver food or timber to the government; if the government's demands were not met, they would shoot some hostages.

What reforms did Lenin institute? Could any reform justify such suffering and death?