Return of Lenin

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When and how did Lenin return to Russia?
April 1917- German government offered him transport in a sealed train
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How did Lenin suggest revolution should be lead?
By a small disciplined party of professional revolutionaries- view so strong that in 1903 he'd split the party
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What problems did Lenin face on return?
Many of the Bolshevik leaders had left Russia. The Bolshevik party was an illegal organisation.
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What did Lenin criticise on his return to Russia?
90 minute speach- condemned the provisional government, demanded an immediate social revolution
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What was the April Theses?
Lenin rewrote Marx's ideas applying them to Russia
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What did the April theses say?
War to be ended, revolution to move to 2nd stage, condemns Provisional Government, remove police, army bureaucracy- same salaries, confiscation of land, propaganda, union of all banks, production under soviet control, spread revolution worldwide.
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What were Lenin's two main points which gained him support?
'Peace, Land and Bread' and 'All power to the Soviets'
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Why was Lenin's first bid for power unsuccessful?
21st April 1917- aimed for mass demonstration to overthrow provisional government. agitators sent to factories to gain support, only a small number of demonstrators were on the streets- easily put down by police
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