Lenin

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  • Created on: 11-04-17 17:17
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  • Lenin
    • The return of Lenin
      • When war broke out-Lenin was in Austria
        • Desperate to return to Russia after February Revolution
      • Utterly opposed war-but many Bolsheviks supported war
        • Many socialists in war supported war-made Lenin look bad
        • Keen on Bolsheviks wanted peace and an end to the chaos in Russia
          • Germans decided to help Lenin back in, to overthrow PG
            • People accused him of being a German spy-didn't care as Germans would help him financially
    • April Theses
      • Lenin made it clear he wouldn't follow PG
        • Bolsheviks grew in popularity
          • June 1917= had 10,000 armed workers in Petrograd know was RED GUARDS
      • He wanted a workers' revolution- this was know as  APRIL THESES
      • 1) war with Germany had to end
        • 2) power had to pass from middles classes to working classes
          • 3) All land to peasants
            • 4) Police, army and bureaucracy abolished
              • 5) Capitalist system overthrown
                • 6) Bolsheviks should take control of the soviets- 'All power to the soviets became watchworld

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