Unit 3: Role of Lenin

Question 1

Lenin’s return

Answer 1

Upon Lenin’s return, he immediately made a speech to welcome the revolution. In his April Thesis, he demanded for a worldwide socialist revolution, an immediate end to the war which the Provisional Government disagreed with, and the end of any cooperation with the Provisional Government.

Question 2

Lenin’s radical new alternatives

Answer 2

Lenin’s radical alternatives to the Provisional Government was gaining increasingly more support from the workers and soldiers. The Bolsheviks emphasised the ideas of controlling employers and prioritising food supplies which appealed to the workers looking for improving living conditions. In 1917 the Bolsheviks saw a growth of 150,000 members, and this growth of support threatened the Provisional Government.