Bolshevik revolution?

Question

can someone please explain the bolshevik revolution in simple terms for me? thanks.

Answer 1

Simply put, during WWI the Germans helped communist and revolutionary Vladimir Lennon back into Russia after he had been exiled by the Czar. But the Czar was on the front line for troop morale when it began.

Lennon spoke and spoke and gathered so much support a revolution sparked with communist reds versus the pro Russian monarch whites. a civil war erupted between the reds and the whites but the reds had the Czar and his family hostage so to take the fight out of the whites and destroy any hope of returning the monarchy they executed Czar Nicholas Romanov and his wife and all his kids by firing squad and left buried in a remote wooden area found sometime i believe in the 90's.

This revolution destroyed the Russian monarchy and put a communist nation in control and they pulled out of WWI which almost allowed the Germans to win the war with all their eastern troops now relieved of a second front. luckily the Americans joined in at the end and it was too much for them.

So the German monarchy of the time helped Vladimir Lennon go back to Russia to spark this revolution and it went better than they had ever hoped, but they had no idea the next leader after Lennon would spell their doom by 1945!

I hope that helps you.

Answer 2

In 1917 the revolution in March deposed the monarchy and instituted for the first time democracy under prime minister Kerensky.
There came into being a large number of political parties , both right and left wing.
After some time some of these parties began to get disillusioned with the new government who they thought were not trying hard enough to bring the war with Germany to an end and were still allowing too much power to the supporters f the old regime
One of these parties was the Bosheveki , led by V..I. Ulianov better known as Lenin.
They were a very badly supported party and unpopular with most people because of their refusal to compromise.
During August and September as the country became more ungovernable Lenin persuaded sailors and soldiers to join the party in Petrograd and the Red Army was formed. They took over the Smolny Institute and this gave Lenin a power base to move forward and with his genius for organisation spread his message throughout Russia by means of the Soviets which were councils of sailors and soldiers.
The Red Army defeated the forces of Kerensky and Kerensky had to flee for his life.
His cause was then united with the Soviets of the Peasants and the power of the Bolsheviks became unassailable and they triumphed in the subsequent civil war.
They had a simple slogan which was "All power to the Soviets" and their policy was to distribute all land to the poor peasants, put the factories in charge of the workers and for committees of soldiers to run the Armed Forces.
These promises were of course unsustainable and the situation for the population deteriorated when Lenin was later assassinated and Stalin took over.
Stalin was a very minor player during the Revolution, he was only the Commissar for Nationalities but he climbed to the top by sheer ruthlessness.

Answer 3

Yes. Communists had closed 70,000 Russian Orthodox churches and chapels and all of the monasteries and seminaries. 280 bishops and at least 45,000 priests had perished. They made marriage a civil, not a religious, ordinance. A central teaching of its "prophet" Marx was that religion reflects the world of class societies; institutional religion impedes progress towards a classless society, the goal of Marxism. As the Bolsheviks consolidated their power, they placed more and more restrictions on the church. On December 4, 1917, the Bolsheviks confiscated church lands. A week later, they took control of schools that had once provided religious education. Students would now be force-fed Communist propaganda.

Answer 4

I'll try my best. Basically, the Bolsheviks were a faction of Marxists in Russia, who were dissatisfied with the current state of things in Russia. Some [of the most simple] contributing factors (it's not exactly a simple revolution): lack of food, lack of men (due to the severe death tolls of World War I), costs of the Crimean War, humiliation in the Russo-Japanese War, the rush from the Dark Ages to the rest of the world (they were only freed from serfdom in the 1870s, where the rest of Europe had been without serfs for several hundred years), along with serfdom, the preface of The Communist Manifesto talks about the importance of former serfs in today's society, previous separation from Europe, too quick of emmergence into world affairs, quick change from Alexander II to Alexander III (being almost opposites in politics) and then the sudden change to Nicholas II (who wasn't ready to, expect to or want to be czar), the long-lived lack of heir and then the lack of a healthy heir (the czarevitch, Alexei was hemophiliac), discrimination against Jews, Poles and Ukrainians, and basically Alexandra and Nicholas' general inability to rule. During WWI, Nicholas wasn't around, and Alexandra was caught up listening to Rasputin's ideas of how to keep her son alive, so no one was running the country.

Basically, the Bolsheviks were dissatisfied, and ultimately, in the October (or September, depending on the European or Russian calendar) of 1917, they revolted against the other revolutionaries who'd already taken over in February (who used to be part of the same party). Eventually, they imprisoned the royal family and machine-gunned/bayonetted them all. From there, Lenin took over, and then that was a mess. So, anyways, that's the basic idea.

The Bolsheviks have a long history of inter-party argument, so that never helped them.

Answer 5

Ok.

In 1917, there were two revolutions. The first was a democratic revolution in February. It wanted to create a democratic republic.

Then in October (November by our calendar), there was a counter-revolution- the Bolshevik Revolution.

The fledgling democratic government was overthrown and the country was in a state of civil war.

The civil war had two main sides Reds (Bolsheviks) and Whites (Tzarists, democrats, and everyone else).

The war lasted until 1922, when the Reds declared themselves victorious and formed the Soviet Union and instituted a communist government.

I didn't go into gory details, but you don't seem to be interested in them.

Answer 6

Lenin came to Russia as a spion of UK-Germany,spent revolution on jewish german money by rude blood attack.then stupid lie,repressions,civil war.

Answer 7

It was an uprising of the Leftest Socialist-Communists and Anarchist's to overthrow the Provisional government. Which had ruled Russia since the Czar's abdication. The result was that Russia became a Socialist-Communistic country with Lenin as its leader.