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Looking at the Period of Dec1916 to Dec1917, explain why and how Lenin and the Bolsheviks led a successful revolution.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks led a successful revolution by capitalising on the misery and hardships that already existed in the Russian proletariat, to further their own ideals. ... It was not so much that Lenin’s particular ideals were supported, or known, by the majority of the Russian people, but he and the Bolsheviks were the only party to take organised, independent, and drastically violent measures to achieve their goals. ... His was totally against the Bolsheviks philosophy, and under Lenin’s instruction, they took no part in the third and fourth Dumas, as they supported immediate and radical change to Russian politics, and began their ‘independent revolution’. Lenin sent a telegram to the Bolshevik Party in 1917, declaring this move, ‘Our tactics: absolute mistrust, no support of the new government…. ... Factories gave the Bolsheviks the chance to preach their ideals to large numbers of people, and word of their cause soon spread amongst factory workers, the oppressed class of city people. ... The Bolsheviks and other revolutionaries spread the ideas that peoples’ hardships were caused by the aristocracy (which they were) and spread hatred for the upper classes through ‘agitprop’, or ‘agitation propaganda’. ... It was not a ‘people’s revolution’, more a ‘stolen’ revolution’, and many were opposed to Lenin’s ideals. Lenin dealt with these people swiftly, and soon there was little real opposition to the Bolsheviks.
Approximate Word count = 1414
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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