Who Promised Peace Land and Bread?

V.I. Lenin. Lenin had promised "Peace, Land, and Bread." After several false starts, the Bolsheviks successfully negotiated a separate peace with the Germans, the famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Who promised the Russian people peace Land and bread?

In October of 1917 Vladimir Lenin led a violent overthrow of this temporary government. Lenin gained the support of the Russian peasants and factory workers by promising them peace, land, and bread and preaching the ideas of Karl Marx's communism.

Who promised peace land and bread to Russia in the middle of WWI?

The new government, however, would face two key obstacles to maintaining power: the ongoing problems maintaining Russia's participation in the war and the long-awaited return from exile of Vladimir Lenin who promised peace, land and bread.

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