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Why was Lenin and the Bolsheviks so unpopular by 1918? (Peasants…
Why was Lenin and the Bolsheviks so unpopular by 1918?
Mensheviks
ideological interpretations of Marx differing
Jealousy
Soviets
They have been usurped by the Bolsheviks when they were promised autonomy
Peasants
Industrial urban focus
not much focus on peasants
Peasants not a revolutionary class therefore not important
France/Britain
Bolsheviks withdrew Russia from war efforts
Debt from war supplies unpaid
Kerensky and the Prov Gov failed and overthrown therefore interest in war no longer cohesive
Socialists
V different beliefs
rejection of an imposition of dictatorial communism
Middle Class
Non people in lenis eyes : they lost all their possessions and businesses
Socialist Revolutionaries
They would have been the legitimate gov in accordance to the constituent assembly's votes
Americans
Ideological differences overall
Kadets
wanted more democratic means of gov, same fears as the socialist revolutionaries as they believed they were the legitimate heirs