During the month of October, the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd. They had completed a coup against the ever-unpopular capitalist government. Many say that there were many instances of chance in the coup, there was also strong influence of key individuals including Lenin. Although he was a strong influence within the revolution, he wasn’t solely responsible for the outbreak of revolution.

In mid April Lenin had arrived in Petrograd, Lenin had been exiled for most of his life, he was given a free passage to Russia by the Germans, the Germans did this because they thought that he was a spy and this would weaken Russia.

When lenis had arrived he produced the April thesis, which listed 10 points that were all against the provisional government, Lenin had rejected the idea of the Provisional Government. These 10 points included the immediate end to the war, support for the provisional government would stop and the imperialist government would cease to exist.

This thesis attacked the Provisional Government, however the Provisional government was going to be

Lenin knew that he had gained so much support. He said ‘We cannot be guided by the mood of the masses……that is changeable and unaccountable……The masses have given their confidence to the Bolsheviks and ask from them not words but deeds.’ Although Lenin and the Bolsheviks had done all of the organising and planning of the revolution, the reasons for the revolution were the discontent that many of the social classes had faced from the previous 50 years from the government and the Monarchy. Lenin gave the Russian people a chance for a change, but was not solely responsible for the revolution, However he did lay the foundations and was also the catalyst for the revolution.

Lenin wrote The state and Revolution – within it he explained the Marxist doctrine of the need to completely dismember the bourgeois state before a proletarian could be constructed, however this book was not published until after the revolution in 1918, as with many other pieces of his work. Lenin had created the foundations to begin a revolution, however Lenin had created the slogan ‘Peace Bread Land’, which nearly everyone was saying in the streets in Russi

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