Who are the people involved in the Bolshevik Revolution – Russia?
Lenin (born Vladimir Illych Ul’ianov): Led the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He instigated the October Revolution and led the country afterwards. Trotsky: He led the Military Defence Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. It was this committee that took power for Lenin in the October Revolution. He also organised and led the Red Army – guaranteeing the security of the new government. Alexandr Kerensky: Was a Socialist Revolutionary (a party similar to the Bolsheviks, but focused on the rural, not urban population). His management of the country was poor, more like firefighting as the crises in the country went from bad to worse. He could have pulled out of WWI, perhaps saving the regime; he could have held elections to the Constituent Assembly, perhaps saving the regime; and he could have given the peasants what they wanted – ownership of the land that they farmed, perhaps saving the regime. But it was Lenin that did all these things – ensuring that many
