Here's the thing about Lenin: he was an exception and for most of his career more security officials knew who he was than normal Russians. For all of his faults, and there are many, a revolution would be lucky to have a man so ideological and good at *committees* rather than demagoguery.
Me, at midnight, making bad posts: Saw Gerrera is Star Wars Napoleon, but bad at fighting. Mon Mothma is Star Wars Lenin!
You can't stop me. I'm tired, I'm a little sick, it's past midnight, it's labor day, you will endure my bad takes!
One of the things that history can end up distorting, and this can be rather intentional, based on who's writing the histories, is who was actually famous/popular/well known to normies. In 1917, to a normie in Petrograd, the Bolshiveks were the Party of Trotsky.
But of course Lenin was honestly the more important force in the Party, and the government following October. He's Premier, after all. So he takes the focus. Aided by a Soviet State, under Stalin, that was eager to downplay even bury Trotsky.
By the way I instantly went to Russia here, but when talking about the kind of Rebellion Saw was fighting in STAR WARS, especially prior to the unification of the rebels, a better point of reference is Haiti: a chaotic war of all against all.