Because the Bolsheviks promised the peasants land.
the Bolsheviks called for an immeadiate peace settlement with Germany
The Russian Revolution of 1917, which toppled Tsar Nicholas II and brought the Bolsheviks to power.
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After the Russian Revolution ousted the Czar, the various factions began to fight among each other. The Bolsheviks (Communists), also known as the Reds, made a play for power opposed by the Whites, Mensheviks (royalists, democrats, republicans, and reactionaries).
Vladimir Lenin
Land to the peasants
Bolsheviks, who took over in the Russian October Revolution of 1917. a very bad group indeed. Bolsheviks Bolsheviks Bolsheviks Bolsheviks
In (and even before) 1917 in Imperial Russia, the Bolsheviks gained mass-support for numerous reasons. Most of the reasons, however, centered on the corruption, inefficiency, and failures of the Russian royal dynasty and its administration as the governing power in Russian.
Bolsheviks.
The Mensheviks.
The Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks, the group that gained control of the Provisional Russian government in 1917.
At the time of the communist revolution in 1917, the Russian communists were known as Bolsheviks.
During the Russian Revolutions of 1917, they were known as the Bolsheviks.
From St. Petersburg to Moscow.
Vladmir Lenin
Peasants actually played very little in the way of a role with either revolution. The February Revolution was largely a matter of what people living in urban centers did, and the October Revolution was a coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks.