Access the impact that Lenin had on Russia and the Russian people?

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Access the impact that Lenin had on Russia and the Russian people?

        Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870. At this time Russia was under rule by the Tsar who ruled Russia autocratically.

        Lenin was scared at an early age by witnessing the execution of his brother who was hanged for treason; he tried to assassinate the Tsar Alexander III.

        At an early age, in his early twenties he was exiled and sent to live with his grandfather, as he was a radical and a troublemaker at University were he studied Law. He was a very intelligent man who could win peoples minds. He also had a love for literature and read books by Karl Marx. He was a great follower of Marx whose books were talking about an ideal world with no capitalism and everyone had equal wealth but Lenin adapted this so that it would work in the modern society.

        In 1903 he was partly responsible for the split of the Social Democrat party, in which the Bolsheviks were formed. Bolsheviks means majority but this was ironic.

        The 1st Revolution happened in March 1917. At the time Lenin was in exile in Switzerland and soon returned on a secure train through Germany. The Tsar was overthrown and a Republic formed with the Provisional Government in power. Soon after this Lenin returned and made the ‘April Theses’ he promised ‘peace, bread and land’ to Russia. Lenin saw this revolution as a capitalist revolution.

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        The 2nd Revolution in November 1917, was a Bolsheviks Revolution, which

brought Lenin power. He had to share power with the Petrograd Soviet. He was

brought to power due to Provisional government mistakes plus the roll of Trotsky and

Lenin’s ruthlessness and his methods of success. When Lenin came to power there

was famine in Russia. He liked this as it brought about more chance of a Revolution.

Also there was the War, which he believed was a catalyst to speed up war. But as

soon as he was in power it was one the ...

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