Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was not a war that lasted for a continiuosly period of time. It was made of two seperate revolutions, one of them was on February and the other one was in October. This was in the year of 1917. The February revolution tooks place around St. Petersburg. The members of Duma assumed that they would take control of the country and form a new government called Russian Provisional Government. The army didn't felt that they had any means to suppress the revolution so the Russian Provisional Government was under control. Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in the stage for revolution in Russia. During the October Revolution the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks.Lenin was the leader of the radical Bolsheviks. He was an outlaw. He had a debate with the more moderate wing of the Russian Social Democrats called Mensheviks. He was in favor of the war but the other socialist weren't because he thought it would weaken capitalism and prepare the ground for revolution. He promised peace, land, and bread but he didn't keep his promise. Instead of giving land he took it away, because he didn't kept his promise there was death by starvation in the Soviet Union. The estimates are between 3 and 10 million deaths in 1922.