GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -While land was not exactly handed over to the peasants, land reform meant that those who worked on the land after the Bolshevik Revolution had a much greater input into the way that land was farmed. The state collective farms may not have been ideal for the peasants but they were better than what had existed before.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Bolsheviks ordered land redistribution, the Russian army began to break up. During 1918 and 1919 the ‘greens’ (Socialist Revolutionaries) and ‘whites’ (Pro Tsarists) controlled most of the Russian empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd (now St.