How Did Lenin Contribute To The Rise Of Bolsheviks

Between 1917 and 1920, the Bolshevik party underwent a massive transformation, as it evolved from a revolutionary splinter group into the party in full control of the Soviet state. The Bolsheviks emerged from the Russian Social Democratic Party – who believed that the industrial workers were the only revolutionary class. In the February Revolution of 1917, Tsar Alexander II was overthrown, effectively ending the three-hundred-year-old Romanov Dynasty. During the February Revolution, Vladimir Lenin had been living in exile in Switzerland – and the Bolsheviks were largely not involved in this event. Following the overthrow of the tsarist regime, however, Lenin returned to Russia and began his effort to place Russia under Bolshevik control. Lenin
The Provisional Government was created in the aftermath of the February Revolution –making clear the weaknesses of Russia and paving the way for the rise of the Bolsheviks. When Tsar Alexander II was overthrown, the members of the Duma set up a Provisional Government to replace tsarism. This Provisional Government, led first by Prince Georgi Lvov, and later by Alexander Kerensky, was created to take on “full governmental responsibility, while the Ispolkom [the Petrograd Soviet] acted as a kind of supreme court of the revolutionary conscience.” In other words, the Provisional Government held the executive authority and the Ispolkom possessed control over legislation – creating a system of shared power. This notion was highly impractical – and largely ineffective – because the involved parties had widely contrasting ideas about governing. Further, the government’s sheer temporariness prevented any major reform in Russia. The Provisional Government made advancements toward “universal suffrage without distinction of sex” and improving individual freedoms for Russian citizens. However, this success was not enough to mollify the expanding Bolshevik party. The Provisional Government used an “extreme form of political