Paul, Successful attempt by an extremist group

Before the October Revolution, the Russian people had been through many different governments but none of them seemed to work. The rule of the Czar pushed the people into wanting a more democratic government. The Provisional Government was put into place in order to achieve that goal. When they did not live up to the high expectations of the people, Vladamir Lenin saw his chance at power arising. In Lenin’s platform he brought up many points that were reasons why the past governments failed (Belk notes). Lenin knew that the people wanted basically the exact opposite from the governments they had been following, which is why he made sure to bring up key points from the past. He manipulated the people by saying: the Czar was unsuccessful because he couldn’t bring them through the war, he would not bring another war to the Russians, he would increase civil liberties that the Czar ignored, and he would not be a lone leader but a leader along with the Marxist (Belk notes). Of course to the people all of these changes sounded great but he left out the ways in which he would carry out these tasks.
Lenin wanted a communist dictatorship in order to make it impossible for Russia to be capitalists (Book 3). His main point in getting the people on his side was to make sure the soviets had power (Theses 4). If the government was going to be a communist dictatorship then technically the soviets would have the same amount of power as everyone else in the country. He also said he wanted the proletariat and peasants to have the power (Theses 4). Once again, how could one group of people have power when the goal was to have a communist dictatorship?
Lenin also tried to let the people think he was for the good of their needs by imputing civil liberties (Book 3). But he took away the Bourgeoisie Press’s freedom of speech by cutting them off completely so nothing bad could leak to the public (Book 3). The bourgeoisie did hold most of the power in Russian because they were the wealthiest beings. Lenin was taking away most of their land in order to give it to the proletariat and peasants (Book 3). The bourgeoisie was angry with this fact and would have written about Lenin and the Bolsheviks but that does not give Lenin the write to cut off the paper especially if he had just given everyone civil liberties. Lenin thought he was helping out the lower class and middle class workers but they inevitably wanted a democracy and not a dictatorship, which was what Lenin was giving them.
When many workers began to revolt because they wanted a democracy, Lenin established the Cheka, concentration camps and the Red Army (Book 3). The Cheka was a secret police that helped to surpress people who were against Lenin and the Bolsheviks and break up riots and revolts (Book 3). Concentration camps were put into place in order to punish counter revolutionaries (Book 3). Lenin wanted everyone out who was against him so that they could not influence others and start riots. The Red Army was established as a threat to anyone against the Bolsheviks (Book 3). The fear brought in by the Red Army made people support Lenin and the Bolsheviks. The October Revolution was a successful attempt by the extremist group, the Bolsheviks to gain power over the Russian people.