What did the Bolsheviks do to change Russia?

Answer 1

27th october, Lenin announced his first big changes to Russia:

He called for an immediate end to the war and just peace. He believed that the war would end anyway when the German workers and soilders were inspired by the Russians to stage their own revolution

He set up Russias third and final government for 1917. The new government was to be called the soviet of peoples commissars or sovnarkom for short.

He allowed peasents to use all of the farming land they had taken for themselves during 1917. The Bolsheviks did not want the peasants to own the land. In a communist society there is no private property and everything is shared. But Lenin recognised that the peasants made up most of the population. The peasants wanted land and the Bolsheviks needed the peasants on side, so Lenin decided that they would let the peasants have the land for the time being and then decide later how to change the situation.

Answer 2

Russian society changed for the better when the Bolsheviks came to power. The nobility became totally disenfranchised. As a result fees on farmers were greatly reduced. Private enterprise flourished. Russia modernized. Then the state began taking over the large farms formerly owned by the nobility. They became collectives. Taxes increased above the point the farmers had to pay the nobility. Private farmers were forced to join collectives. The government took over the private companies. The old nobility kept alive either by working at menial tasks or by selling their gold, silver, or jewelry. The bureaucrats were nowhere near as competent at running companies as private enterprise had been. Russian cities looked like slums. People waited in lines for hours to get basic necessities.