How Did Lenin Contribute To The Russian Revolution

The Bolsheviks was a political party that used violence to take control of Russia. As mentioned the Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was born in 1870 in the town of Simbirsk (now known as Uljanovsk) and was originally named Vladimir Iljitj Uljanov. He was the son of Ilja Nikolaevitj Uljanov and Maria Aleksandrovna Blank. Lenin was baptised in the Russian-orthodox church but became an atheist when he was sixteen years old.

When Lenin was a child he would accompany his father out to the countryside, where he saw first hand the enormous amount of poverty and misery in Russia. As a teenager Lenin discovered Karl Marx’s ideas of communism and one of his role models were Nikolaj Tjernysjevskij, whose book “What should be done?” was

In april 1899 he published a book, “The Development of Capitalism in Russia”. While in exile he also continued to study and spent most of his days reading or walking around in nature around the river Jenisej. When he was released from captivity in 1900 he travelled to Petrograd (now known as St. Petersburg) from where he had been banned. Unsurprisingly he was caught by the secret police force of the city, the Okhrana, but was soon released. After being let go by the police he travelled to a russian town named Ufa and continued to central Europe where he kept up his political work. In 1903 the Bolshevik party was founded which was led by Lenin himself and a man named Lev Trotskij. In 1907 he moved to Finland because his safety in Russia had been compromised. Lenin kept travelling through Europe and participated in a lot of socialist meetings. In 1916 he moved to Zürich and that’s where, in 1917 he got an unexpected message saying the revolution had begun in

At that point, counter-revolutionary general Pjotr Wrangel assembled the remains of Denikin’s army and took over Crimea. They held their position until the Red Army returned from Poland where they had been engaged in battle. When the full strength of the Red Army was pointed at the opposition they stood little chance, so the remaining troops were evacuated to Konstantinopel in November 1920. The communists stood as victors in Russia, but even though they had taken control over Ukraine, parts of central Asia and Transcaucasia as well, they had to accept that some European borders had been moved since the rule of the tsar. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland had become independent countries and Romania had gained territory that previously had been russian. Russia then became The Soviet Union (USSR), the world’s first country under communist