Lenin and the Central Committee (3)

Question 1

What did Lenin begin still hiding in Finland?

Answer 1

Bombarding a 12-man Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party with letters demanding that they prepare for revolution and the seizure of power.

Question 2

What did the Committee’s two most prominent members fear?

Answer 2

Kamenev and Zinoviev, feared that Russia was not yet economically ready for revolution.

Question 3

What did Kamenev and Zinoviev do to try a prevent revolution in Russia?

Answer 3

They burnt some of Lenin’s letters.

Question 4

What did Kamenev and Zinoviev think about acting towards a revolution?

Answer 4

They believed they should not act before the Constituent Assembly elections.

Question 5

What did Lenin do on 10th October?

Answer 5

He slipped back into Russia in disguise harangued the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party all night.

Question 6

Did Lenin succeed with the vote of ten to two?

Answer 6

Yes he did Trotsky took Lenin’s side but Zinoviev and Kamenev refused to agree and published their own views in the newspaper Novaia.