I hate to ruin the party here but anybody that talked about the weaknesses of the PG/July Days/anything before Oct 1917 isn't going to get marks for that part - it was about the survival of Bolshevik power from 17-24.
That said, I only focused on the Civil War, but I know I owned on the dictatorship question - did the terror and how it wasnt all him so not entirely personal, did the great retreat, cult and socialist realism and a tiny bit on economic policies - conclusion was he came across as personally in charge, and at some points he was, but he still had to pass a vote (which sometimes backfired - Riutin) and the secret police did a lot of stuff.