HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Germany
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Austria-Hungary
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Switzerland
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Detailed explanation-1: -On April 16th Vladamir Lenin returned to Russia. The Germans had sent him in a sealed car from Switzerland. They hoped that Lenin would foment further instability in Russia since Lenin’s Bolsheviks were opposed to continuing the war with the Germans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hopeful that their return would undermine the Russian war effort, the Germans allowed Lenin and other Bolsheviks to return to Russia from exile in Switzerland.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Germans, eager to get Russia out of the war so that it could concentrate on fighting France and Britain, decided to destabilize the Provisional Government. They arranged for Vladimir Lenin, a communist revolutionary who headed the Bolshevik party, to return from European exile to Russia in a secret sealed train.