Question

Who was Lenin? What was his contribution in Russian revolution?

Answer 1

Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, played a significant role in the growth of Russia; he contributed in the following way:

1)       Lenin firmly believed that unless the feudalism, the land slavery and the despotic Tsar rule was totally destroyed, there could not be any progress of the Russian People.

2)       He terminated capitalism in the field of business and industry.

3)       The private property was confiscated and the business and industries were nationalized.

4)       Big landholders were deprived of their land and equal distribution of land to all was done.

5)       The government sponsored and ran various industries.

6)        The workers were given accommodation, food, clothes and other facilities instead of wages in money.

7)       A communist government was formed in Russia on a war footing (war communism)


8)       Lenin announced a New Economic Policy (NEP) which consisted of both privatization and nationalization to some extent.

Answer 2

Answer:

Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution.