What was Vladimir Lenin's campaign promise?

Answer 1

Lenin's promise to the people of Russia was "Peace! Land! Bread!" By 1917 the Russian people were ready for a change in government because Tsar Nicholas II's government simply no longer worked. "Peace, Land, Bread" meant three basic desires of the Russian people. Peace meant ending Russian involvement in World War I. Incompetence in the army led to huge losses in life. Land meant the abolition of private property and a redistribution of land. Bread meant an end to widespread shortages of basic foods. The Tsarist rule in Russia had already been ended in the February Revolution, but the problems that led to that revolution persisted even with the new government. In three words, Lenin captured the needs of the Russian people to the extent that they were willing to follow him in setting up another government.

With that said, the new Provisional government had little time to change Russian society. Lenin changed it with a Dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party. It was not a dictatorship of the working class.

Answer 2

The only promise he kept was to end Russia's involvement in World War 1 by entering into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918. He did not keep his promise to end food shortages, which got worse. He did not keep his promise to redistribute land to the peasants. He kept that owned by the government.

Answer 3

Lenin didn't campaign. People campaign in a democracy, but Lenin was a dictator. Dictators don't ask people they tell. They aren't elected, but they take. The Soviet Union has never been a democracy, even to this day it isn't. It has been ruled by Czars and dictators.

Answer 4

Lenin and Leon Trotsky promised the Russians peace, land and wealth to be shared out equally among the peasants.

Answer 5

Vladmir Lenin did not campaign. Prior to the Russian Revolution, he argued, though, that if he came to power all Russians would have "Peace, Land, and Bread".