Conditions in Russia after the Revolution

• Failure of the Provisional Government under Kerensky to implement reforms and hold general election for the formation of a Constituent Assembly to frame a constitution for Russia.
• The Provisional Government did nothing to stop the war and hold elections.
• Lack of land reforms and inflations and shortage of food was on the rise.
• The worker's union called the Petrograd Soviet was formed and their forces know as the Red Guard helped the Provisional government during Kornilov incident.
• Bolshevik party under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin gained popularity.
• The free press and the political prisoners who were let lose helped in the spread of revolutionary ideas.
• Leon Trotsky helped in organizing the Bolshevik troop namely the Red Army and Stalin took charge of the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda (Truth) to propagate Bolshevik ideas.
• Lenin's powerful speeches and the motto of the Bolsheviks Peace, Bread and Land for the Russian people instigated revolutionary ideas among the people and they wanted the government to transfer all its power to the Bolsheviks.