BOLSHEVIKS SUCCESSION
- Created by: 10cmurphy
- Created on: 07-04-17 13:14
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- Why did Bolsheviks succeed-Oct 1917?
- Role of Lenin
- Feb 1917-Bolsheviks least likely to take power
- Lenin seized opportunity in October 1917
- Allowed Trotsky to organise take-over
- Trotsky organised it with little force and very efficiently
- Weaknesses of the other parties
- Kadets dominated Prov Gov-failed to gain support of majority
- Peasants thought Kadets were favouring upper classes
- Neither Mensheviks or SR's had a car plan but they did have widespread support
- Bolsheviks seemed less connected to Prov Gov
- Compared to Mensheviks and SR's
- Fall of the Prov Gov
- Kornilov Affair and Kerensky's decision
- Gave Lenin the weapons and prisoners to build momentum to take over
- Bolsheviks appeared politically stronger
- Prov Gov consistently failed resolving problems
- June Offensive showed many that the Prov Gov shouldn't be trusted
- Kornilov Affair and Kerensky's decision
- Lenin and the Soviets
- Soviets-only real alternative power base
- Lenin manipulated October's events
- Looked like Soviets were trying to take over
- Role of Lenin
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