HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Question
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Why did Lenin return to Russia after his exile?
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Lenin returned to Russia because no one was interested in his Socialist views in the rest of Europe.
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The Germans helped Lenin return to Russia in hopes that he would get Russia out of WW1.
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Lenin returned to Petrograd to instigate the Proletarian Revolution
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Lenin returned to Russia because he missed his family and friends.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye in Siberia for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
Detailed explanation-3: -The German government was at war with Russia, but it nonetheless agreed to help Lenin return home.
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