Once in power, the revolutionaries were forced to modify their ideals. Under Lenin’s control, many things changed in Russian society for the revolutionaries and Bolsheviks, and even the Mensheviks. Lenin’s original ideals could not hold for evident reasons, and this meant that the revolutionaries had no choice but to change them in one way or another. Prominent contributing factors were the First World War and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Russian Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, War Communism, and the NEP, or New Economic Policy.
When Vladimir Lenin took power over Russia, he went into it with a tunnel-visioned mindset, and promises to win over the country. These were to grant peace, provide enough bread for everybody to be fed, to give everybody land, and prominently, all power to
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The first duty that Lenin took on when he got into a high position of authority was sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which was an agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, in early March of 1918, which meant that Russia could instantaneously evade the First World War. Although, aside from this immense change in Russia’s level of nonviolence and peacefulness, Lenin was forced to modify his preliminary ideals as he found it was impossible to follow through with them after the treaty had been engaged. The widespread famine continued onwards and remained stagnant, for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk assured that Germany would benefit from this and not Russia. As for the land, Lenin was only able to grant peasants a little bit of land, but not as much as anybody was expecting. Lenin’s final adage was “All power to the Soviets,” although this principle was completely modified as well in the end. He was extremely unwilling to give all of the power to the Soviets, as he