[WoofDog123]

Can you tell me about the quality of life peasants faced in russia in, say, 1905? Would they have any motive to be discontented with the monarchy?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Out of the skillet and into the fire. Communism did exactly what Lenin and Marx intended it to do, get the masses on your side with empty rhetoric and then put yourself in the mansion.

If Lenin were such an upstanding guy, can you explain to me why he had his minions murder the Tsar and his ENTIRE family? He was merely a thug dictator doing what all thug dictators have done throughout history, stake a claim to power and eliminate anyone who might challenge him. His disciple Stalin took that lesson to heart in regards to rotsky.

[Cheburashka]

Can you tell me about the quality of life peasants faced in russia in, say, 1905? Would they have any motive to be discontented with the monarchy?

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Lenin had nothing to do with the overthrow of the monarchy.

The February Revolution overthrew the Monarchy and installed the Provisional Government. The Provisional Government set elections for November, 1917 to elect delegates to the Constituent Assembly, which was to write a constitution for Russia and govern Russia until the elections under that constitution were held.

In October, 1917, Lenin held a putsch to overthrow the Provisional Government, but the elections were held as scheduled the next month. The Bolsheviks got 24% of the votes.

In January, 1918 the Constituent Assembly met for one session and then Lenin and the Bolsheviks refused to let it meet again.

The Whites in the Russian Civil War were fighting for the restoration of the Constituent Assembly, not the return of the Tzar as the Bolsheviks propagandized.

That one day was the only day that Russia had an democratically elected government until Boris Yeltsin became President of Russia.

Lenin was a murderous thug. He just didn't have the time to get his killing machine organized. Stalin did.