Question by chels: What is a famous Russian Revolutionary who spoke to peasants and encouraged then to go against the Tsar.?
I am doing a history assignment on the Russian revolution. We have to write a diary from a peasants point of view, I wanted a revolutionists to come to the village my peasant lives in and speak to the peasants and encourage change, my diary entries are set between 1896 and 1905.
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Answer by JDSAT
Lenin.
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poornakumar b says
V.I.Lenin.
He succeeded because of his ‘organising’ while the attempts of his predecessors failed. WW I made a lot of difference and the peasants had it up to their gills; they could take no more.
Even then, Lenin had to initially work with the right-wing Mensheviks (Lenin’s group were the Bolsheviks), neutralised by 1925 when he proclaimed a (totalitarian) Communist state; created a policy apex body he called the ‘party’ to guide the destinies of the USSR and the governments within. He had all the agrarian land as the property of the ‘State’ but withdrew the dictum hastily as the proletariat weren’t ready yet.
Jim L says
Load of rubbish. Your teacher is another left wing lulu who knows nothing of the real events.
The movement to ‘go to the people’ came much earlier in the 1860s and 1870s. It had no real success.
In 1905 and 1917 the peasants just seized the chances available from the spreading chaos.