What did Lenin do to ensure he would not lose power after the Russian Revolution?

Answer 1

Wrote 'Imagine', 'Let it Be', 'Revolution', and 'Back in the USSR'.

Answer 2

After the March 1917 Revolution that overthrew the Tsar, a Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky was sworn in. Kerensky wanted to keep Russian troops - which were badly trained, under-nourished, ill-equipped - to continue fighting against Germany in the first world war. Bad Mistake.

Most of Lenin's supporters came from the working class of the large factories and the cities and also from among the soldiers who had enough of a disastrous war that Russia was totally unprepared for. Lenin's promise to bring the troops home from a war that was unpopular and disastrous had massive appeal at home.

Kerensky and his supporters were all identified with the rising Middle Class, and associated with the widely despised Russian Royal family. The October 1917 Revolution to take over power was not spontaneous like the March 1917 Revolution - but it was widely welcomed to a people totally fed up with the war.

Anyone who disagreed with Lenin and communism was labelled an enemy of the Revolution. With control and loyalty of the army, Lenin was in complete control of Russia. Idenitifying enemes of the Revolution did not take long - and the NKVD secret police allowed the Communists to remove any potential threats to the 'revolution'.

While Lenin secured control of the Russian cities, it was the Russian army that secured the remaining parts of the Russian Empire, that threatened to secede from the Empire - now the U.S.S.R. It included removal and relocation of populations that could threaten the new soviet empire.

Answer 3

In the immediate aftermath he created instruments of power, terror and suppression (the Red Army, the Soviet secret police, suppression of dissent — culminating within five years by the suppression of the Red sailors who mutinied at the Kronstadt naval base). But he also made concessions for a time that were popular — he got Russia out of the First World War, even though he had to surrender territory to the Germans and their allies; he made domestic alliance with the revolutionary agrarian populists and appeased the peasants with a major distribution of land (though he imposed heavy agrarian taxes in kind, commandeering much of the grain crop). A few years afterwards, when the Bolsheviks had weathered the first storms and won the civil war, he made substantial concessions by reversing some of his domestic economic policies and enticing Western capitalists and technologists to helpl build up Russia. Thie "new economic policy" which was a period of a mixed economy under revoltionary socialist auspices was a way of surviving and starting to rebuild Russia, and lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1920s, when Stalin reversed himself (and the Soviet system) and introduced industrial five year plans and agricultural collectivization, using the pollice and army to suppress dissent, round up milllions of prisoners for the gulag, and set the Soviet Union on the path of forced industrialization which was a hallmark of the society most of the period till the decline and fall of communism in the 1970s to 1991.

Answer 4

He had Trotsky killed, and he ran off Kerensky, who was nominal President, he brought up such nice guys as Stalin. Stalin was an ardent supporter because he owed it all to Lenin. Lenin surrounded himself with sycophants so he always got a vote the way he wanted it. One was John Reid, the American Journalist and Communist. He wrote many glowing reports on Lenin. He is the only American buried in the Kremlin Wall.

Answer 5

Simple, he killed anyone who disagreed with him.

Although he didn´t do too much actual, hands-on, murdering and throttling etc. he had buddies like Beria and Stalin to take care of that kind of thing.

If you find this difficulty to believe then visit the museum of the revolution in Dzerzhinsky Square Moscow. I have. Dzerzhinsky was the founder of the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB.

In that museum they have thousands of photographs from the revolutionary period, they even have Lenin´s Rolls-Royce worker´s special motor car. The interesting bit about the photographs is the gaps. Over the years many of the old guard revolutionaries have become un-people, and thus have been deleted from the photos.

Still don´t believe me ? Google Lev Trotsky or the Romanov family, or any of several million who simply disappeared betwqeen 1917 and .......well, strictly speaking the end of the cold war, but there are still critics being nobbled today, they say old habits die hard.

Answer 6

he disbanded the parliment and banned party

then, he created a law known as fractionalism... those who disagree with communist party policies could be killed

please do not mix this with cult of leninism by Stalin

Answer 7

MASS TERROR!
He couldn't pronounce his R's properly so he was always calling for 'Wuthless tewwow against enemies of the pwoletawiat!'
Traditionally, the Russian state isn't a target of terrorism, but its instigator.

Answer 8

Lenin did many things, but killing everyone who disagreed with him is not true.

Answer 9

Formed the Beatles I think.