Edwards- Agreed with Miller, Who i hope gets better soon.

The October Revolution and its results used the peoples the people’s desires and became a successful attempt by the Bolsheviks to obtain power. After the February Revolution, the provisional government came into power to replace the Czar, who was overthrown by the people for not fulfilling their needs (3). But the provisional government also failed to fulfill the needs of the people and was soon overthrown by the very people that brought them to power as well as a new party, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin. Lenin and the Bolsheviks promised the working class of Russia that if they were placed into power, they would remove certain powers from the upper class, or bourgeoisie (3). After the October Revolution, Lenin did come to power. Initially, Lenin did fulfill the wants of the working class people by closing the bourgeoisie press, which held the largest opinion of the Russian people because the poor did not have a press (3). Lenin also gave the peasants land without forcing them to pay (3). After Lenin gained the trust of the people, he began to implement his true motive and take over Russia. Lenin Made sure that Russia was under a single party rule (3). This was to make sure that no one would be opposing him in the future and this helped him maintain power because there were no checks and balances to keep him from doing anything he wants.
After a little of Russia’s new government, resistance began to rise against Lenin and Bolshevik party (3). To deal with this new-found threat, Lenin set up the Cheka, which was his on secret police assigned deal with counterrevolutionaries and conspirators from the former provisional government (3). This shows that Lenin used strong armed tactics because he was ready to stamp out anyone that opposed him in order to maintain his rule. Another tactic that Lenin used to seize and maintain power was the use of concentration, or forced labor, camps (3). Lenin used these camps to send the rebels and others that opposed him to get them out of the way to avoid future uprisings. This showed Lenin’s strong tactics because once again he was prepared to gain and maintain power by moving his threats and those that opposed him out of his way. Lenin and the Bolsheviks recognized that the working class people wanted reform, so they used that want of reform to overthrow the Provisional government in the October Revolution and gained enough of the people’s trust and then began to carry out their own motives.