What did life look like for the Russians before Lenin came to power?
Before Lenin came to power, Russia was in war with Germany. The Russian army was badly organized. All the food and money went to the soldiers that caused food shortages in the cities. Even in 1915, when the Tsar took personal command of the army, the circumstances were still bad. A lot of people hated their tsar, because he wasnt involved and didnt care about his people. The tsar had a lot of power, and so he made a lot of laws and policies to prevent revolts against him. Also, the Russians were divided up into different classes (1: clergy, priests/2: nobles/3: bourgeois, peasants). Per class they had to wear different clothes, which made the peasants and bourgeois to stand out even more. Most Russians were peasants; they had to work very hard for very low pay by farming the land (which often wasnt even owned by the farmers) or, in case of the peasants living in towns, they had to work in factories. There were few machines to do the work and the living conditions were bad. Factory work
