Lenin's role- including the April thesis

Question 1

What had Lenin not expected?

Answer 1

-abdication of the Tsar so quickly.

Question 2

What did Lenin cause in the provisional government (April)?

Answer 2

A shift in attitudes on social revolution.

Question 3

Who helped Lenin get back to Russia and why?

Answer 3

-Germans
-Saw Lenin as a ‘virus’
-peace in the east

Question 4

What slogans did Lenin use?

Answer 4

-‘peace bread and land’
-‘all power to the soviets’ (wanted an operational Petrograd soviet with all power delegated to them).

Question 5

Which document promised peace, bread and land?

Answer 5

The April Thesis

Question 6

What did peace, bread and land entail?

Answer 6

-Withdrawal from WW1
-Land reforms
-End of the hardships of WW1

Question 7

What was the impact of Lenin’s return?

Answer 7

-no impact
-people did not care about April Thesis.
-slowly became relevant- Trotsky!

Question 8

What were the main points of the April thesis?

Answer 8

-no cooperation with other parties
-true revolution + overthrow the PG.
-Transfer power to the workers
-end war

Question 9

Which other communist ruler initially sought to cooperate with the provisional government?

Answer 9

-Stalin