When Lenin told the people that he was going to give them some thing Trotsky would deliver it to the people. ... He told the people that he would promise them Bread, Peace and Land. ... For bringing them bread it came with all of the money the country was making from the industry. ...
Many peasants were now fighting for a loaf of bread to feed their starving families. ... Prices had rose so much, that many workers also could only just manage to by the bread they needed. ... Prices skyrocketed, and huge bread lines were formed, but usually there was no bread to give out. ...
He was a strict autocrat - giving the people no power or control over their lives. ... In 1905 a group of protesters arrived outside the Tsar's palace and demanded more wages and cheaper bread. ... After this the people wanted their own government so they could have power over the things like the price of bread and their wages, so Nicholas gave them a political institution called the Duma. ... There were more marches and demands for bread, trains were stopped and shops were looted. ...
When Lenin came back from exile, he made a promise to the people that he would one day overthrow the government and give them peace, bread and land. ... As your trusted ambassador, I advise you to give support to the Whites by supplying them with weapons and troops. ...
On March 8, 1917 a group of women and boys were waiting in line for bread. After waiting all day they were told there wasn't any bread. ... But the Tsar himself was not willing to give up his power and he dissolved the Duma after a few months. ... Nicholas II was forced to give up, but he was replaced by a Provisional Government committed to continuing the war. ... Most of the population liked the Bolsheviks because they promised the people " peace, land and bread ". ...
If losing a war isn't enough to give people of a nation an inferiority complex, nothing is. ... Russia had been torn apart politically by a weak Emperor, festering with indecision, and socio- economically with World War I, class wars, and the increasing state of industrialization's unrest and bread lines. ...
It was bread that was the chief diet of serfs. ... It was made from bran, malt, dried crusts of bread, flour and water (Vuinich, p.13). ... In return for protection, the peasants gave their loyalty to the local lords giving rise to the feudal system. ... This ever increasing exploitation of the serfs reduced them by the end of the seventeenth century and had so impoverished serfs that they were forced to give up many of their former and civil rights. ...
