HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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THEY SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS
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THEY HAD A STRONG BOOST IN POPULAR SUPPORT
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THEY SOUGHT MONETARY ASSISTANCE FROM BRITAIN
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NONE OF THESE
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Detailed explanation-1: -By September the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, had achieved majorities in the Petrograd and Moscow soviets and won increasing support among the hungry urban workers and soldiers. In October they staged a nearly bloodless coup (the “October Revolution”), occupying government buildings and strategic points.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Bolshevik Revolution On October 24–25, 1917, Bolshevik (left-wing socialist) forces under Vladimir Lenin seized key government buildings and stormed the Winter Palace, then the seat of the new government in Russia’s capital, Petrograd (now St. Petersburg).
Detailed explanation-3: -Overthrow of power: The overthrow of autocracy, the destruction of the aristocracy and the power of the church were the first achievements of the Bolshevik Revolution. First Communist state: The Bolshevik revolution resulted in the establishment of the first communist state in the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Land policies attracted the peasants – that policy in particular showed a general strength of the Bolsheviks: they were ready to adopt their policies in order to achieve the proletarian revolution. (Land to the Peasants!)