How accurate is it to say that Lenin’s leadership was the most important reason for the Bolsheviks’ success in the revolution of November 1917? Prior to Lenin’s return the Bolsheviks had little support as they were an illegal organisation hunted down by the secret police. They welcomed the February Revolution‚ the provisional government and the Petrograd soviet. However upon Lenin’s return he gave a speech suggesting that the provisional government were bad and an immediate social revolution must
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How accurate is it to say that Lenin’s leadership was the most important reason for the Bolshevik’s success in the revolution of November 1917? Lenin’s leadership was to a large extent an important cause of the Bolshevik’s success in the November 1917 revolution. This is because of Lenin’s great leadership skills‚ including his personality and timing‚ and his use of propaganda. Other factors to why the Bolsheviks succeeded included Trotsky’s role‚ which was debatably more important‚ and the problems
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eWas Lenin’s leadership the main reason for Bolshevik success? Although initially Lenin was the one to make the Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional Government‚ there were a number of long term factors that led to this revolution. The Provisional government were so weak that it meant that the Bolsheviks were the only party able to seize power in October 1917. The fact that the Provisional Government failed and the Bolsheviks were successful‚ was due to the fact they were a weak government who barely
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Vladimir Lenin was an outstanding figure of significance during the Russian Revolution. Under his strong leadership and with the help of his loyal followers‚ Lenin enabled the Bolsheviks to come into power‚ overturning the Provisional Government in the second revolution of the year. This has long been regarded as an important factor that contributed to this seizing of power. However‚ it is not the sole reason‚ nor is it the most important one‚ with two others being the incompetence of the Provisional
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Due: 5/1/15 Why did the Bolsheviks succeed in 1917 whilst other political parties failed to gain power? [2nd Draft] The Bolshevik’s seizure of power was due‚ significantly‚ to the external environment of deterioration festering around them at the time‚ the most incremental and significant being the failure of other political parties to act and distance themselves from the Provisional Government. This directly heightened Lenin’s role in the revolution‚ allowing him to exploit these weaknesses
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Under strong leadership the Bolsheviks were able to come into power‚ overturning the Provisional Government in the second revolution of the year. Lenin was an outstanding figure during the Russian Revolution. The strong leadership is the main reason for the consolidation of Bolshevik control of Russia however the poor leadership of the military and the incompetence of the provisional government also helped. Lenin became interested in radical politics and after his studies joined many discussion
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Roseman The Success of the Bolshevik Revolution In order to understand the success of the Bolsheviks‚ one must first appreciate that they had no central role in the general revolution of March 1917. The government at the time of this Revolution was extremely weak. This was due to lack of loyalty in the army and consistent internal and foreign policy mistakes abdicated by Tsar Nicholas II‚ starting with the dissolution of the Duma and ending with the continued engagement in WW1 when Russia was in a state
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How important was Lenin compared to Trotsky in the Bolshevik coming to and consolidating power between 1917 and 1924? Russia is extremely large but much of the land is barren. As a result Russia experienced many problems‚ especially due to its backward nature. As Russia was a vast empire it was difficult to control and resulting in many revolutions. The Russian Revolution was the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917‚ which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet
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Essay 1: 1. Assess the role of Lenin in the success of the Bolshevik revolution. Lenin’s political role in the success of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution was to a critical extent due to his thirst for power. However‚ to a reduced extent‚ the feebleness of the Provisional Government and the support/work of Trotsky guaranteed political accomplishment. Lenin’s strength within the political sphere was most accentuated by his April Theses – 7 April 1917. Lenin was a described by post-revisionist historian
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How far was Lenin responsible for the Bolsheviks’ growing hold on power in the years 1917-1924? In 1917‚ the Bolsheviks gained power of Russia and were able to hold onto this growing power until 1924 and later. There are several factors that could be considered to be the reason as to why they were able to seize control. It could be said that Lenin was a significant factor due to his pragmatism and his use of terror‚ however it also could be said that other members of the Bolshevik party such as
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