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Sow the seeds for the Bolshevik Revolution?

2007-07-12 17:17:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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In a nutshell, it made Russia's peasants REALLY angry.

Seriously, Nicholas II sending those people off to "the meat grinder" of the Eastern Front led to people being really unhappy. Then, when the Germans sent Lenin back to Russia on a boxcar (he had been previously exiled), it only sowed the seeds of destruction for the government

Cheers!!

2007-07-12 17:23:49 · answer #1 · answered by SinisterMatt 5 · 1 0

The First Provisional Republic of Alexander Kerensky managed to have Tsar Nicholas II abdicate his throne. But, Kerensky still advocated Russia's continuing presence in the war against Imperial Germany and its Austrian ally. Lenin and the Bolsheviks pressed the slogan: "Peace, Bread and Land". It was intended to let the Russian peasantry know that they would not face conscription and death or injury in the war, would have sufficient food and would share ownership of the vast tracts of land owned by the Kulaks. It was, after all, attacks on the Imperial food storage houses in Petrograd and Moscow that was the flash point of the events which overthrew the Tsar.
History has shown how monstrous a lie the Bolsheviks told. Though the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought Russia out of the war, they were soon embroiled in a domestic civil war. The next five decades produced episodes of famine on a regular basis. The land was collectivized by Stalin under the "Kohlkoz" system. The Bolsheviks wound up batting 0h for Three.

2007-07-12 17:34:21 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1 0

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