ipl-logo

How Did Lenin Lead To The Russian Revolution

773 Words4 Pages

First of all, according to the Western Civilization textbook, the French revolution started out with ideas to make a society based on the worker. February 1917, Nicholas II personally commanded army. 1914-1917 Political ineptitude and military defeats. Also, one million casualties lost, army poorly trained and undersupplied along with domestic discontent. Leaders of Russia saw what power can do so they wanted to take over. They manipulated and miss used the people to their own needs which was totally inhumane but they obviously didn't cared. This made the people suffer the same or worse under their new rulers which only caused damage. The Russian revolution ended the Russian Empire which was directly followed by a war between capitalism and …show more content…

That is when Lenin comes into the game. He stated in one of his responses “Dear comrades, I am happy to greet in your persons the victorious Russian revolution, and greet you as the Vanguard of the world-wide proletarian army. The piratical imperialist war is the beginning of a civil war throughout Europe, worldwide socialism has already dawned. Germany is seething, any day now the whole European capitalism may crash”. Clearly, Lenin was concerned about the people and the peasants not the …show more content…

He applied the principles of Marx's as best as he could in Russia. He realized the the want for the development of capitalism in Russia. In addition, Lenin saw the proletariat as the driving force behind the revolution, coupled with the peasant class. The peasants could obviously not created their own independent revolutionary party because of their status. As stated by Lenin on Excerpts from V.I Lenin, the state and revolution : “This definition of the state has never been explained in the prevailing propaganda and agitation literature of the official Social-Democratic parties. More than that, it has been deliberately ignored, for it is absolutely irreconcilable with reformism, and is a slap in the face for the common opportunist prejudices and philistine illusions about the "peaceful development of

Open Document