Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky masterminded the October Revolution.
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Because it secured Bolshevik power in Russia
Because it secured Bolshevik power in Russia
The Bolshevik Party took power after the October Revolution in 1917. After the February Revolution, power was vested in the Provisional Government with no particular political party in sole power.
Russia as they were dealing with the Bolshevik Revolution
It allowed the Bolshevik socialists to gain power and eventually establish the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union).
Russia is the country strongly associated with the Bolshevik revolution. The revolution took place in 1917 and ultimately led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, with the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seizing power from the provisional government.
It was split by Bolshevik party (run by Lenin), and the Duma (Alexandar-Provisional Government). ^_^
Two slogans were "Peace! Bread! Land!" and "All Power to the Soviets." Vladimir Lenin concocted these and never fulfilled either one. He did end Russia's part in World War 1, but his takeover of the government in the Bolshevik Revolution set off the Russian Civil War.
It allowed the Bolshevik socialists to gain power and eventually establish the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union).
They tolerated the Bolshevik coup because they misunderstood the Bolshevik's true intentions and underestimated the ability of the Bolshevik's to retain the power they had usurped. The various socialist parties were actually opposed to the Bolshevik takeover; however they tolerated it because they felt that it was better to accept a takeover by a socialist party than to invite civil war that might undo the gains of the revolution or even restore the Tsar. The socialist were fooled into thinking that the Bolsheviks truly intended to honor the principles of the revolution and give power to the Soviet councils or to the people themselves. They did not realize that Lenin and the Bolsheviks had no intention of allowing anyone other than themselves to exercise any type of political power. The socialists also found themselves with no power to resist the Bolsheviks as they consolidated their power. The Bolsheviks had created the Military Revolutionary Committee, which was an armed force. The soldiers of the Russian army for the most part refused to intervene.
wanted to retain power and avoid German occupation