Persecution by the Tsarist regime.
The vast majority of Russia's population neither liked or disliked Lenin, Marksism or communism. They wanted freedom from the Tsarist regime.
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Lenin left for Europe on two occasions. The first was around 1900 when his three year term in exile in Siberia ended. He wanted to continue his revolutionary agitation, but the Tsarist regime would have arrested and imprison or exile him again. He went to Europe so that he could write revolutionary books and articles for publication in Russia. He also wanted to keep his hand in revolutionary activities from abroad. Lenin also fled to Europe (Finland to be exact) in early July 1917. There was an attempt at a revolution in July which failed. The Tsarist regime began arresting every revolutionary they could. He went to Finland, for awhile then shaved off his beard and snuck back into Russia disguised as a railway worker.
Lenin's older brother Alexander was executed by the Tsarist regime for being part of a revolutionary plot against the life of Tsar Alexander III.
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In the period c. 1880-1914 many Jews wanted to get away from persecution by the Tsarist regime.
Persecution by the Tsarist regime.
The vast majority of Russia's population neither liked or disliked Lenin, Marksism or communism. They wanted freedom from the Tsarist regime.
The Opening of the Panama Canal, the Overthrow of Russia's Tsarist regime, Operation Overlord (the invasion of Normandy, WW II).
Some Russians supported the Bolshviks because they felt they offered a chance to escape the miserable living conditons imposed by the tsarist regime.
Kulaks, Tsarists and the White Army, and other elements of the Tsarist regimes previous were used constantly throughout his earlier regime, and later on it was regularly Capitalists and the Imperialists, as it was with most other Soviet leaders.
Russia was a Tsarist state between 1547 and 1721.
He didn't make everyone equal. The members of the Communist Party became the new aristocracy while the workers, soldiers and peasants remained at the bottom of the social classes as they had been under the Tsarist regime.
The Russo-Japanese fed the flames of discontent already existing in Russia at the time; and led to the rise of Lenin and the Bolsheviks; which would ultimately over throw the Tsarist regime in 1917...led by Lenin himself.
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