Question by Hailey: what philosophy did Vladmir Lenin embrace during the Russian Revolution?
and why did he believe russian peasants would join his “revolution”?
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Answer by Leeluh
He embraced communism. Communism believes that workers should be the ruling ones and not the rich classes, so that in a later stage there would be no classes at all.Just people working for people.
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Clay J says
There's a great book about life in Russia after the Revolution which offers a lot of insight into the Russian people's way of thinking. By the way, the book is also greatly entertaining and has just become available in English. It's called, Jack Vosmerkin – the American, and you can take a look for free here (one interesting thing about the book is that a young Russian spends several years in America and then goes back after the Revolution, combining his knowledge of both cultures throughout):
Bigredan JPA says
Lenin did not so much embrace Marxism (a form of Communism) as modify it to fit the Russian actualité.
Marxism, and Leninism do not focus on the peasantry, it is a philosophy about the working, urban classes (Maoism and Castro-ism are peasant based variants of Marxism).
But he believed that ordinary Russians would join the Revolution because it was just, right and – to him and the Bolsheviks inevitable that they would prevail.
The Duma – to answer your other question was the legislative assembly granted under Nicholas II after the 1905 revolution – it was largely impotent, but was important as an introduction to democratic politics for Russia (it is also the name of the current Russian parliament).