Before this period of history, Russia was facing difficult hardships due to the pressures of World War I. Many of the citizens believed in seeking end to a terrible war and to make up for all the shortages that were present during this time. Workers were exploited and felt upset by the social gap that the war had created. Many of them posed a revolution of the government in power at the time, forcing the Tsar abdicate the thrown. This allowed for some major social changes in Russia’s government. The masses revolted against their landlords and many and the ones who were above them in social class. The soviets, who advocated for the working class, helped paved the way for trade unions for the working man and meet the demands of Russia’s revolutionary masses. These new ideas of radical government opened the way for Lenin, the leader of the socialist party called the Bolsheviks, to control this new-found government. Lenin believed “that Russia, despite its industrial backwardness, was nonetheless ready for a socialist revolution that would, he expected, spark further revolutions in the more developed countries.” He wanted to please the masses by promising them that they would get out of the war that created the many inequality problems, land for the many in poverty, and to act more on behalf of the soviets. In late October of 1917, the Bolsheviks along with Lenin came into
Before this period of history, Russia was facing difficult hardships due to the pressures of World War I. Many of the citizens believed in seeking end to a terrible war and to make up for all the shortages that were present during this time. Workers were exploited and felt upset by the social gap that the war had created. Many of them posed a revolution of the government in power at the time, forcing the Tsar abdicate the thrown. This allowed for some major social changes in Russia’s government. The masses revolted against their landlords and many and the ones who were above them in social class. The soviets, who advocated for the working class, helped paved the way for trade unions for the working man and meet the demands of Russia’s revolutionary masses. These new ideas of radical government opened the way for Lenin, the leader of the socialist party called the Bolsheviks, to control this new-found government. Lenin believed “that Russia, despite its industrial backwardness, was nonetheless ready for a socialist revolution that would, he expected, spark further revolutions in the more developed countries.” He wanted to please the masses by promising them that they would get out of the war that created the many inequality problems, land for the many in poverty, and to act more on behalf of the soviets. In late October of 1917, the Bolsheviks along with Lenin came into