Bolsheviks+Success

By Catherine Wolf

The Bolsheviks successfully made a revolution & seized power at the end of October 1917. The Provisional Government was the authority that was "in control" at the of the Bolshevik revolution which aided the Bolsheviks to success, as they were already very unpopular. It came into being upon the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and yet pursued the same war aims in the west that had initiated the abdication in the first place. So when the Bolsheviks tried to challenge the Provisional Government, there were few ready to support it. When the peasants tried to claim land, the Provisional Government tried to stop them. With the Provisional Government not allowing peasants land & the Bolsheviks opposing this, the popularity of the Bolshevik party could only grow & the Provisional Governments support could only drop, making the Bolsheviks seem even better, as they opposed the unpopular government.


 * Reasons for Bolsheviks Success **

1. The other parties had cooperated with the Provisional Government & had allied with it, waiting for a Constituent Assembly. 2. The other parties continued to support the war effort. 3. The Mensheviks regarded the Provisional Government as a necessary preliminary to the triumph of the proletariat. 4. The Provisional Government was weak. It was a self-appointed body & lacked authority. 5. Whilst the Petrograd committees of workers were not Bolshevik, they were equally opposed to the provisional government.

*Land taken from the Church, nobility etc were given back & also land was given to the peasants. *Treaty of Brest-Litvosk *All factories put under control of workers committees *All non-Bolsheviks papers were banned *Established CHEKA Notes taken from class. [] [] [] []
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