Why Did Lenin Lose The 1917 Russian Revolution
There was, however, an attempt to bring the Romanovs back to their rightful place on the Russian throne, a revolt of which your father and I chose to keep secret from you and your siblings. The letters from members of the Constitutional Democratic Party had been piling up, each one mentioning a plan to rid Russia of the Bolsheviks. The revolt had finally come in 1917 at the hands of General Lavr Kornilov with a mission to end the revolution and bring our family, primarily Nicholas, back to Russia to rule as czar. Devastatingly, Lenin and the Bolsheviks had won with their Red Army, and my dreams of returning to Russia were crushed once again. Over the years I grew more and more disgusted by Lenin’s success and I felt horribly for the Russian people who had been betrayed by him, especially after his signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk with Germany. This
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I had watched Lenin die of a stroke, something of which I can hardly feel sympathy for. However, it was the future that I feared the most. What would become of Russia? Who would take Lenin’s place? The two people who had run to take his spot, to me, had and still continue scare me to the core. Trotsky, a man that I’m sure you still remember, was one option, but even he wasn’t the worst. It was the so called “man of steel”, otherwise known as Joseph Stalin. I had watched him talk to his wife Nadia of his plans every night, his horrid plans of becoming dictator of Russia. At the time my intuition had told me that the future of Russia held its own Reign of Terror. I had even tried to warn people of the dangerous man to whom the leadership of Russia was to be granted. I broke mirrors whenever he walked by, and even wrote on windows “Stalin’s Reign of Terror”, but it was to no avail. The people of Russia had not heard my warning, and I’m glad you never had to suffer along with the Russian civilians of that
I had watched Lenin die of a stroke, something of which I can hardly feel sympathy for. However, it was the future that I feared the most. What would become of Russia? Who would take Lenin’s place? The two people who had run to take his spot, to me, had and still continue scare me to the core. Trotsky, a man that I’m sure you still remember, was one option, but even he wasn’t the worst. It was the so called “man of steel”, otherwise known as Joseph Stalin. I had watched him talk to his wife Nadia of his plans every night, his horrid plans of becoming dictator of Russia. At the time my intuition had told me that the future of Russia held its own Reign of Terror. I had even tried to warn people of the dangerous man to whom the leadership of Russia was to be granted. I broke mirrors whenever he walked by, and even wrote on windows “Stalin’s Reign of Terror”, but it was to no avail. The people of Russia had not heard my warning, and I’m glad you never had to suffer along with the Russian civilians of that