After Revolution - Lenin’s Arrival

Question 1

The Sealed Train

Answer 1

Lenin travels with 31 comrades on a German train and is allowed safe travel through Germany. On the train he writes his ideas about communism and how he is planning to implement them onto the freshly revolutinised Russia.

Question 2

Theory of permanent revolution

Answer 2

The concept that continuing revolutionary progress within the USSR was dependent on a continuing process of revolution in other countries.

Question 3

April thesis demands

Answer 3

1) War should be bought to an immediate end
2) Power. Should be transferred to the soviets
3) all land should be taken over by the state and relocated to peasants and soviets
4) Summed up as ‘peace, bread and land’