This is correct - the 1920s were appalling, predominantly though not exclusively on the Red side. The war also created a famine almost as severe as 1932-1933 (the primary reason it was not being Lenin's willingness to allow Hoover and the ARA in, if only so he could resume grain exports).
Sasho TodorovIt's not about that. I think everyone has memory holed the utterly absurd bloodbath that was the Lenin years, which included several openly genocidal campaigns.