Chapter 10-the Return Of Lenin

Question 0

What were two problems faced by Lenin

Answer 0

Much of the Bolshevik leadership lived outside of Russia

Within Russia the Bolsheviks were an illegal organisation who were hounded by the okhrana

Question 1

What were the ‘vanguard’ party?

Answer 1

A small disciplined party of professional revolutionaries who would be at the head of the revolution

Question 2

When did Lenin arrive in Petrograd?

Answer 2

3rd April 1917

Question 3

What is the speech published by Pravda on April 7th 1917?

Answer 3

The April thesis

Question 4

What did Lenin believe could follow a bourgeois revolution?

Answer 4

A socialist revolution

Question 5

Why did Lenin suggest that power should be handed over to the soviets?

Answer 5

The provisional government was dominated by liberals, and the Bolsheviks had more support in the soviets

Question 6

What were lenins two main rallying cries in his April thesis?

Answer 6

Peace, land and bread

All power to the soviets

Question 7

What did the April thesis suggest?

Answer 7

The war is a greedy war for territory and should be ended immediately
No support for the provisional government
Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials should not exceed the average wage of a worker
Mass propaganda to win over poor peasants and workers
All production of goods to come over soviet control

Question 8

What did all power to the soviets play on?

Answer 8

The feeling amongst workers that the pg was made up entirely of landowners and the middle classes who would not look out for their interests