Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was one of the people that shaped Russia political path and emergence as a superpower during his reign as a president, and upon his rule, the soviet union as it was known would come to disintegrate to modern day Russia. These events could also be a result of the cold war between united states of America and Russia where each country wanted their allies to adopt an economic system that they thought was superior to the other in terms of capitalism and socialism. The Bolshevik party which was made up of revolutionary leaders where Lenin came to amass the political clout which he enjoyed through his rule was the ruling party that gained victory after the revolution. However before the Bolshevik party came to be a part of the …show more content…
In a defiance gesture, the people started to gather so that they would lead a revolution which would oust the proletariats and send them to their rightful place away from the capital. The people felt that their will had not been expressed when they were electing the constituent assembly which would represent them in parliament. Socio-economic impacts of the election results were beginning to be felt across Russia as Railwaymen’s Congress, peasant committees, and their deputies started to regroup in a bid to have the proletarian government reconsider their position on the assembly seats which they had manipulated in their favor. Soviet authorities were becoming the enemy of the people, and this started social and political strife which would eventually culminate in a civil war. Cadet-Kaledin started to gather people and groups who felt that the Soviet authorities had taken what was rightfully theirs and in turn, they had forced them to take meager positions of power and authority in the Congress where their voice could not be heard. However, during the gatherings that took place in order to deliberate the course of action which the revolutionists would take so as to oust the Soviet authorities some moles had infiltrated their ranks and who wanted the information …show more content…
The demands for annexation of some parts of Russia where the anti-government factions were assembled were met with ruthlessness and brutality from the Soviet government soldiers and police. The ruthlessness of Bolsheviks on the protestors who were running out of resources, weapons, and ammunition meant that their cause would be futile unless their developed better strategies to counterattack the government. Social revolutionists had never consolidated their base due to conflict of interests, and this helped the Soviet government to validate acts of terrorism unless they supported a provisional government and took part in the Duma . By the end of 1917, seven leftist social revolutionists had abandoned their quest for independence and signed decrees of joining the government. This caused a massive seizure of land by the peasants through a legitimized decree which the revolutionists had signed and through that act they made the Bolsheviks party to consolidate and have a following even in the