What was the main factor that allowed the Bolsheviks to rise to power in 1917 and why?
War Effect
Provisional Govt.
Bolshevik Strength
P. lack of strength in the Tsar/his abdication
P. Home Front
P. October Revolution
P. Lenin
N. July Days
backfired
led to chaos and Pravda was closed
N. democracy
meant that the Bolsheviks may not have been voted in
Lenin fled
P. Kerensky
on both sides of the party
unable to make firm decisions
poor decisions after the Kornilov coup
P. Dual Authority
no clear answers in Govt
P. Peace, Bread and All Power to the Soviets
April Theses
arguments over leaving the war
inflation
P. Order No 1
storming the Winter Palace
Feb Revolution
250,000 workers went on strike 25 Feb
gained a lot of support
able to lead the Bolsheviks from Finland
lack of communnication
P. Didn't improve policies
never redistributed land to the peasants
left decisions to the new elected government later on
socialist party has one million members
seized the capital (Petrograd)
food shortages
decreased wages
300% rise in the cost of living
took charge of the army himself, too nervous ad not commanding enough
abdicated in March
all decisions in the war had to be authorised by the Soviet
gave the Soviet more power in the war than the Prov Govt
N. Lenin connections to Germany
travelled in a sealed carriage through Germany to Russia
less trusting of him