I doubt he was ever going to follow through on the whole communism thing.
Because he started the civil war when he disbanded the National Assembly after it’s first day. All because his party lost the election.
The simple history of 1917 Russia. WW1 is going poorly and in February the people rise up and force the Tsar to abdicate.
This is a major victory, but not a complete one. There’s an interim government that isn’t widely popular and a promised National Constituent Assembly to write a constitution.
Lenin then comes back from exile and starts table rousing. Saying that there doesn’t need to be an assembly, that he should just be in charge so he can make the country communist.
Now, there was quite a bit of socialist frevor among the people, but the majority of people in the country side didn’t exactly trust the Bolsheviks.
There’s a whole dual power thing going on for most of the summer as the people form small councils to rule themselves while the interim government has mostly control over the military and such. Because they’re paying.
In November Lenin launches his own revolution and casts down the interim government. But he still has to allow the promised National Assembly election even if he thinks it a waste of his time.
And his party loses badly to the rural socialists. So Lenin spends the next month complaining like the little bitch that he was, demanding that the assembly give up all power to Lenin’s unelected jackboots.
And come January, the Assembly meets for the first and last time because Lenin is still butthurt for losing the election.
Lenin then went on to ban all other political parties.
This and other shit he pulled sparked the civil war, giving him the excuse to use famine as a weapon against Ukraine, which was not a happy part of the Soviet empire.
I doubt he was ever going to follow through on the whole communism thing.
Because he started the civil war when he disbanded the National Assembly after it’s first day. All because his party lost the election.
The simple history of 1917 Russia. WW1 is going poorly and in February the people rise up and force the Tsar to abdicate.
This is a major victory, but not a complete one. There’s an interim government that isn’t widely popular and a promised National Constituent Assembly to write a constitution.
Lenin then comes back from exile and starts table rousing. Saying that there doesn’t need to be an assembly, that he should just be in charge so he can make the country communist.
Now, there was quite a bit of socialist frevor among the people, but the majority of people in the country side didn’t exactly trust the Bolsheviks.
There’s a whole dual power thing going on for most of the summer as the people form small councils to rule themselves while the interim government has mostly control over the military and such. Because they’re paying.
In November Lenin launches his own revolution and casts down the interim government. But he still has to allow the promised National Assembly election even if he thinks it a waste of his time.
And his party loses badly to the rural socialists. So Lenin spends the next month complaining like the little bitch that he was, demanding that the assembly give up all power to Lenin’s unelected jackboots.
And come January, the Assembly meets for the first and last time because Lenin is still butthurt for losing the election.
Lenin then went on to ban all other political parties.
This and other shit he pulled sparked the civil war, giving him the excuse to use famine as a weapon against Ukraine, which was not a happy part of the Soviet empire.