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"One man with a gun can control 100 without one."
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
The Bolsheviks:
October/November Revolution 1917
-Vladimir Lenin was the founder of Communism
-Lenin was exiled during the Revolution but Germans helped him back to Russia
-Germans liked the idea of ending the war
-Ironically, Germnay indirectly contrubited in making Communism
-April Theses - denounced the war
-The Kronstadt Mutiny
-20,000 armed sailors took Petrograd and wanted the Soviet to take power
-Kornilov affair (Kornilov was in favour of Tsar. He wanted the Tsar back as getting rid of the Provisional government)
-The Bolsheviks(Lenin's party) defended Petrograd(St.Petersburg) against Kornilov
-Kornilov threatened to attack the city.
-Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
-Lenin stopped Kornilov bloodlessly
-Cruiser Aurora(sailors against the Tsar and in favor of Lenin) fired one blank shot at Winter palace(where Kornilov is now and the Tsar used to be)
-Winter Palace defended by Cossacks, Women’s Battalion of Death and cadets (These were in favor of the Tsar)
-Lenin was exiled during the Revolution but Germans helped him back to Russia
-Germans liked the idea of ending the war
-Ironically, Germnay indirectly contrubited in making Communism
-April Theses - denounced the war
-The Kronstadt Mutiny
-20,000 armed sailors took Petrograd and wanted the Soviet to take power
-Kornilov affair (Kornilov was in favour of Tsar. He wanted the Tsar back as getting rid of the Provisional government)
-The Bolsheviks(Lenin's party) defended Petrograd(St.Petersburg) against Kornilov
-Kornilov threatened to attack the city.
-Bolsheviks led by Trotsky (military side)
-Lenin stopped Kornilov bloodlessly
-Cruiser Aurora(sailors against the Tsar and in favor of Lenin) fired one blank shot at Winter palace(where Kornilov is now and the Tsar used to be)
-Winter Palace defended by Cossacks, Women’s Battalion of Death and cadets (These were in favor of the Tsar)
Summary
Lenin was the founder of Communism. He comes back to Russia with the help of Germans to end the war. Groups of people who were in favour of having the Tsar back had conflicts with the Bolsheviks(Lenin's party)