USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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Peace, Land and Bread was a slogan that

(A) supported the czar’s power

(B) promised to return serfs to serfdom

(C) ** addressed the needs of all peasants

(D) called for Russain expansion into asia

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Concept note-1: -The slogan “Peace, Land and Bread” was launched by Lenin to gain popular support during the struggle for political power in Russia Lenin addressed these concerns in his proclamation. ‘Peace’ would mean an end to the war.

Concept note-2: -’Peace, Land and Bread’ was a popular Bolshevik slogan during the Russian Revolution. It captured the three main demands of the Russian people: they wanted Russia to withdraw from the World War, redistribute land among its farmers, and provide food security.

Concept note-3: -Detailed Solution. Lenin gained the support of the Russian peasants and factory workers by promising them peace, land, and bread and preaching the ideas of Karl Marx’s communism. Lenin’s slogan gave the proletariat (poor peasants and factory workers) hope for a better future under communism.

Concept note-4: -The “freedom” granted the peasants left them without the means to support themselves. The slogan “bread, peace and land” was part of the attempt to draw the interests of workers and peasants together against the Tsarist regime and its capitalist supporters.

Concept note-5: -The Decrees seemed to conform to the popular Bolshevik slogan “Peace, Land and Bread", taken up by the masses during the July Days (July 1917), an uprising of workers and military forces.