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Lennin promised free elections to the new constitutient assembly in 1917
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The Provisional Government was the national government of Russia between the February Revolution and the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
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collapsed after protests over food shortages and unemployment gathered momentum in the last week of February 1917.
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During the night of 6 November, the Red Guards led by Trotsky took control of post offices, bridges and the State Bank.
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Elections were held in late 1917. However, the Bolsheviks did not gain a majority.Lenin solved this problem by sending the Red Guards to close down the Assembly. He instead used the Congress of Soviets to pass his laws as it did contain a Bolshevik majority.
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Armed formations of the white movement and anti-soviet governments
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Lenin hoped that a socialist revolution would break out in Germany but this did not happen. Germans began to advance again so Lenin had to accept their peace terms in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Brought back capitalism for a part of the Russian society
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Lenin supervised the making of a new constitution.turned the Russian empire into the Soviet Socialist Republics
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On 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma.
