e the sense that a mass Russia had awakened. Out of the revolutions came the Social Democrats in two factions the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. While the Mensheviks had a working class mentality, the Bolsheviks wanted worker to be unhappy to lead to revolt. Lenin the leader of communism and the Bolsheviks led the charge to revolt and to overthrow Capitalism. The Bolsheviks were the majority party and only took in members who would devote their lives to the cause. In the April Theses Lenin wanted a peaceful end to the war and felt that Capitalism must be done away with, as it was the cause of the war. He also wanted all power to shift to the Soviets, this included the workers, the soldiers and the peasants. For this reason the people of Russia trusted Lenin and the Bolsheviks and thought of them as a breath of fresh air, and as a vehicle to needed change in Russia. The people of Russia knew full well the revolutionary intentions of Lenin whos slogan clearly mapped out their intentions, All power to the Soviets through armed insurrection. The events of 1917 were crucial in the rise of the Bolsheviks in power and in popularity with the people. Their campaign slogan was Peace, Land and Bread, which is exactly what the Russian people needed at this time, the soldiers wished for peace, the peasants wished for land, and the hungry masses needed bread. The Bolsheviks already had the support of the workers and worked to protect their rights. January 9, 1917 the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, 300,000 Petrograd workers demonstrated. Between January and February in 1917 the strike movement is moving towards revolution. Tsarist authority ended when the Petrograd Garrison refused the tsars order to restore order in Petrograd through violence if necessary. Now there is a dual power, which consists of the Petrograd Soviet and the Provincial Government. Any separation of power in Russia was viewed as bad. During the summer, the Bolshevik...
