HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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end France’s occupation of Russia
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gain popular support to overthrow the government
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restore Czar Nicholas II to power
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resolve conflicts between farmers of diverse ethnic backgrounds
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Bolsheviks promised ‘Peace, Land and Bread. ‘ They promised to withdraw from the First World War. They promised land to Russian peasants. They also promised food to the starving Russian population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Slogan of the Bolshevik Revolution Lenin gained the support of many people by making promises of “Peace, Land, and Bread.” This was his radical program of proletarian(worker) socialist revolution called the April Theses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lenin had promised “Peace, Land, and Bread.” After several false starts, the Bolsheviks successfully negotiated a separate peace with the Germans, the famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Ratified in March, 1918, Lenin ceded the Baltic states, eastern Poland, and the Ukraine to the Germans.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. To Lenin, the provisional government was a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” He advocated instead for direct rule by the workers and peasants in a “dictatorship of the proletariat.”