Vladimir Lenin Thesis

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of Party, leader of the 1917 Revolution, and the architect, builder, and the Russian Communist first head of the Soviet Union. Lenin did not like the way Russia was governed and wanted to reshape the country by having one Soviet government that would be ruled directly by soldiers, peasants and workers. His ideas caused a revolution and made Russia a communist country in which he was the leader.

The April Thesis. Lenin was exported to Switzerland but kept planning for a revolution even when he was out of the country. While he was in Switzerland he wrote a famous text that became the “April Theses” in which was the basis for his thinking and his idea for how the future of Russia should look like. April Thesis slogan was “Peace, bread, land” and basically supported the following ideas: For Russia to withdraw from the World War I, Soviets to take power of the country and for the government to take all the land and control all banks. Lenin used every chance he could to promote for his revolution, he wrote in newspapers, spoke in parties and gave speeches and led rallies to get the attention of the people and their votes. He even used cinemas and theatres to

show the people what he wanted and put up posters in towns and villages that all promoted his ideas.
Marxsism .Lenin was highly influenced by Karl Marx who is a German philosopher that promoted socialism, and developed the theory of Marxist, Lenin was very influenced by Marx that he even declared himself a Marxist in 1889.

Although Lenin was a Marxist, he had different opinions in a few matters. Marx suggested that working class (labour) would lead the revolution and take over a country, but Lenin believed it was important to create a party that would lead the working class and take decisions on behalf of the working class. Marx did not have an importance for economic and industrial development in his theories, but Lenin on the other hand was applying Marx’s theory in Russia which was not fully developed and hence Lenin focused a lot on developing Russia economically and

industrially.

Elections. Lenin had influenced the way elections were done in order to benefit himself and his party. Voting rules were changed in 1920’s and voting was not secretive anymore but rather was done by raising of hands. People that were against Lenin did not come out to vote because they were afraid of him, this meant that voting was unfair as people did not comfortably chose whom they really wanted as a leader. To make things worse, Lenin’s party cheated and used to change the number of votes to their benefit.
Lenin led the 1917 revolution and became the head of the Soviet Union in which he made Russia a communist country. His revolution was based on the theories of Karl Marx but were changed to suit his own believes and the needs of Russia.