Question

What were the factors responsible for wide spread support of the people to Bolsheviks?

Answer 1

It was a result of a long period of economic hardships, socio-political unrest and regime's ... chronic food shortages and civilian suffering soon created a widespread discontent.

Answer 2

The main idea propagated by the Bolsheviks was that the working class were to break free from the higher class society and live in a society that was just for all.

This was widely supported as there were a large number of middle class workers living in bad conditions due to the boom of industrialisation in Russia.

Also, the lack of incentives from the Czar government helped fuel these ideas among the workers.

Rasputin’s evil deeds along with the Czarina was the final event that made the support turn tides towards the Bolsheviks.