Question

The Russian peasants supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Revolution mainly because the Bolsheviks promised to
1. Establish Collective farms.
2. Maintain the agricultural price-support system.
3. Bring modern technology to Russian farms.
4. Redistribute the land owned by the nobility.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Redistribute the land owned by the nobility.

The correct answer is to Redistribute the land owned by the nobility.

• The Russian peasants supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Revolution mainly because the Bolsheviks promised to Redistribute the land owned by the nobility.
• Hence, option 4 is correct.

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• What is October Revolution?
  • October Revolution, also called Bolshevik Revolution, (Nov. 6–7, 1917), was the second and last major phase of the Russian Revolution, with the first being February Revolution.
  • By 1917 the bond between the tsar and most of the Russian people had been broken.
  • Governmental corruption and inefficiency were rampant.
  • The tsar’s reactionary policies, including the occasional dissolution of the Duma, or Russian parliament, had spread dissatisfaction even to moderate elements.
  • The inefficient prosecution of World War I was the final straw.
  • Ill-equipped and poorly led, Russian armies suffered catastrophic losses against German armies.
  • Riots over the scarcity of food broke out in the capital, Petrograd on February 24 (March 8), 1917.
  • Tsar Nicholas II was forced to step down.
  • More than 300 years of rule by the Romanov dynasty came to an end as a result of the February Revolution.
  • A committee of the Duma appointed a Provisional Government to succeed the autocracy.
  • Soon the provincial government proved to be incompetent.