How did Lenin come to power?

Question

yeah, for my assignment it asks how lenin came to power and i dont know. sources would be nice, thanks

Answer 1

the germans put lenin in power. lenin was living in exile in germany. the germans saw the bolsheviks as a method to mess up the internal politics of russia, so the germans gave him a bunch of gold and all the support they could to get him into power.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Rev... is a good place to start. It has references.

Answer 3

    Russia was going through a turmoil of political problems, the people were tired of the way the leaders were living while they suffered.

     A revolution was in the making and like Hitler, Lenin was in the right place at the right time.

Answer 4

Through a mixture of planing and luck.  He was leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party - there was a coup (called the October Revolution) and he was in power.

See:

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/eve...

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/b/...

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/...