Mention the important leaders of the Russian Revolution
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The main leaders of the Bolsheviks were Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky.
● During this chaotic period, there were frequent mutinies, protests and strikes.
● Many socialist political organizations were engaged in daily struggle and vied for influence within the Duma and the Soviets, central among which were the Bolsheviks ("Ones of the Majority") led by Vladimir Lenin.
● He campaigned for an immediate end to Russia's participation in the war, granting land to the peasants, and providing bread to the urban workers.
● When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions exploited the virtually universal disdain towards the war effort as justification to advance the revolution further.
● The Bolsheviks turned workers' militias under their control into the Red Guards (later the Red Army), over which they exerted substantial control.