A snake in the grass, strong arm, covered by the people's wants

The October Revolution in Russia was a culmination of strong arm tactics by an extremist socialist group that was masked by using the desires of the people to gain support and push the new government out of power.
Lenin began to gain support by promising the people the things that they wanted in this time period. The Provisional Government had not been able to provide its people with the promises it had made, which made it easy for a new party to begin to undermine its authority. The new government barely had time to get organized, much less start on goals to be accomplished when the Bolsheviks began to challenge them. This meant that the government never had a chance to take seed, and develop into a working democratic system, not to say it would have succeeded, but there is no way of knowing since the Bolsheviks ruined any hopes the provisional government had of building its credibility.
Lenin began the elections in October being a truly humble leader, he did not even attempt to be an outspoken campaigner during the voting (source 3). After the elections came back, and the Bolsheviks were not the majority, he changed. Lenin barred anyone but Bolsheviks from entering the building (source 3) and said that the Bolsheviks were the only ones fit to run Russia. This abrupt change shows that Lenin was actually an extremist leader, trying to gain power for his party.
The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, began to do anything they could to gain people’s support for their communist cause. They made the people believe that the Bolsheviks would give them “peace, land, and bread” which were all the things the Russian citizens wanted. In a way these were all carried out, but these goals were only a cover to establish a socialist state. Lenin did get Russia out of the war, which the Russians needed because of heavy casualties and major shortages in food, medical, and munitions supplies. The forfeiting of the war did cost Russia greatly in land though. Lenin didn’t care about the land though; he simply wanted to be out of a capitalist war, and this goal he accomplished. He gained support from the military by letting the war end, so his ending of the war may have only to gain more support.
Lenin gave the people land by dividing up the estates of the kulaks and giving them to the peasants, and this seems like a great Robin Hood like thing to do, but the lands were still supervised and semi-controlled by the Soviet Deputies. The land was still controlled by the socialist party, showing that Lenin was only concerned about spreading the power of his government throughout his country.
Bread was still not given to the people the way that Lenin promised, but no one could speak out against it by the time his promises were broken. Within the second day of his rule, Lenin had eliminated all the promised freedoms of the people (press, assembly, and speech) (Source 3). Lenin soon created the Cheka, or the secret police, to make sure that no one could begin an uprising in the country (source 3), the secret police went undercover to find people speaking against Lenin and caused terror and mistrust among the citizens. The government’s eyes were everywhere, and anyone could be an informant. This terror kept widespread rebellion from coming about, because small pockets of resistance could be stomped out as soon as they were found.
The actions taken by Lenin after taking power, show that the October revolution was an extremist movement to gain power by strong arm tactics, which was originally masked by promising people they would get what they wanted and needed.