The Return of Lenin
With the outbreak of the February Revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remained stationary in Switzerland, his only location for exile, unable to travel to France or England. However, with the sudden event of overthrowing of Czar Nicholas II, Lenin desired to return from exile, despite the incapability of traveling to neither France nor England. Transportation through Germany contributed as his only option to return to his homeland, “But that posed its own difficulty, as Germany was the enemy Russia was still fighting on the Eastern Front”. (Richardson 62). Nevertheless, Lenin continued to venture in a sealed train that “chugged on to Germany’s Baltic coast, from where a ferry and then more train journeys through Sweden and …show more content…
However, without the ruler, Russia began to depend on the Provisional Government and the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies even though “The Provisional Government does not possess any real power, and its directives are carried out only to the extent that it is permitted by the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies…” (Richardson 62). Despite the Provisional Government’s lack of power, Lenin still disagreed with the working cooperation between the two groups. As a result of his return and the governmental system, Vladimir Lenin began the development of the April Theses through his speeches and idea for the people of Russia.
The April Theses With the existence of a Provisional Government that desired liberal democracy rather than socialism, Vladimir Ilich Lenin strongly opposed the system and instead, he declared his own ideas and directives, formally known as the April Theses in 1917. The April Theses consisted of the ten directives and ideas from Lenin’s speeches, which became published in the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda. Moreover, “... hectored large crowds and churned out endless articles, insisting, ‘No great question . . . has yet been