The phrase “Peace, Bread, and Land” is associated with… which one of these?…….?
In October 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power in St Petersburg, the Tsarist capital later renamed Petrograd and then Leningrad. Led by Lenin but still a relatively small communist faction the Bolsheviks’ demand for ‘Peace, Bread and Land’ was a stirring cry against a background of war with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Economically devastated, the Russian Empire’s armies had been defeated, the people left starving and huge areas of land under occupation. Their armed units of industrial workers seized the Tsar (the Russian ‘king’) and his capital, eventually signing a treaty with the advancing Germans at the cost of large areas of their own country. However, the establishment of peace had become imperative if the Bolsheviks were to extend their power throughout the Russian Empire. Lenin now moved the capital to the centrally located Moscow. The creation of the Comintern (Communist International) in 1919 to rally socialist groups abroad and the invasion of Poland in 1920 quickly revealed fu
