How did Lenins April Theses help him rise to power?
The April Theses were a series of directives by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin issued upon his return to Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russia from his exile in Switzerland. The Theses were mostly aimed at fellow Bolsheviks in Russia and returning to Russia from exile. He called for soviets (workers’ councils) to take power (as seen in the slogan “all power to the soviets”), denounced liberals and social democrats in the Provisional Government and called for Bolsheviks to not cooperate with the government, and called for new communist policies. The April Theses influenced the July Days and October Revolution in the next months and are identified with Leninism. The April Theses were published in the in the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda and read by Lenin at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on April 4, 1917. In the Theses, Lenin: Effects After the February Revolution, Bolshevik leaders returning from exile (such as Joseph Stalin and Lev
