What were the factors that led to the Bolshevik's seizure of power in 1917 in Russia?

Answer 1

Lenin seized power via the October Revolution in 1917. Power was given to the soviets, led by the Bolshevik's faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and became the first socialist state.

Answer 2

Among the immediate effects of the Bolshevik seizure of power was the Russian Civil War. Other steps were the nationalization of property, macro and microeconomic restructuring, mass arrests, and the imposition of strict and severe War Communism.

Answer 3

After Lenin seized the control of Russia he killed a lot of people, did a lot of reforms, took everything from people and nationalized all property. He closed the borders, made religion illegal in Russia, connected the peripheral countries to one union and spread the people from some of those countries to other parts of Russia so they would make war against him. Lenin was like an idol in those times, people praised him even though they didn't know what good he did. The 1920's was bad time for hardworking wealthy people because Lenin took all their land, stores, and belongings and sent them to Siberia and other uninhabitable parts. He also sent a lot of people to prisons and camps where they work really hard in gold and coal mines to make the communists rich. There were a lot more things going on but you would have to read the Russian history in whole.

Russia almost immediately broke out into the Russian Civil War after Lenin took control in 1917. Some historians date the Russian Civil War from 1918, bur some believe it truly began with the Bolshevik Revolution.

On October 25, 1917, Lenin and the Bolsheviks took control of Petrograd in a virtually bloodless coup. In Moscow, things were different. The fighting between Provisional Government and Soviet supporters included small arms and artillery fire leaving hundreds dead. Lenin had just deposed the Provisional Government and put all of its ministers and military authorities out of power. But those authorities, generals of armies included, were not going to give up their power so easily. They used the armies they had under their commands and fought back to retain their power.

While large scale fighting did not begin until 1918, the two sides in the Civil War were pretty clearly drawn as of the day after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Answer 4

When the Bolshevik's gained power in 1917, Russia was in a state of turmoil. There was a very week provisional government in place after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. Unemployment was high, wages were low, and the cost of living was through the roof. Finally, the results of the Kornilov Affair skyrocketed the Bolsheviks into popularity and secured their place in Russia.