Growth of the Bolshevik Party: Russian Revolution

Before the Bolsheviks finally seized power in 1917 the support for the party kept fluctuating and changing, contrasting from the claims that the support for the Bolsheviks grew consistently. Before the February Revolution 1917, the support for the Bolsheviks had steadily risen since their formation in 1903, London. However due to the failure of the February revolution support for the party had fallen as well as Lenin fleeing into exile. After the publishing of the April theses people began to notice the Bolshevik party once again after they had disappeared in the February revolution. Then in the period of the July days the P.G showed their incompetence with the ominous signs of the growth of the Soviets. This demonstrated the P.G’s lack of control and the public turned to other political parties with strong slogans such as the Bolsheviks for a way out of the countries failures. By October 1917 the support for the Bolsheviks was at its peak and that was when the Bolsheviks took their chance for the second revolution.

All these factors contributed to the growth in the Bolshevik party. The effective use of propaganda gave the public believe in supporting the party, and key relationships with the Soviets helped the party gain wider support. They were however fortunate for the mistakes of other parties and the Provisional Government, which Lenin exploited to perfection, thus increasing more support and power for the Bolsheviks. It was the ruthless Bolsheviks that hammered away at the other parties failures and gained power through their alliance with the Soviets. The growth in support for the Bolsheviks meant a growth in the power due to these factors. The growth in power then led to their takeover of Russia.