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To decide on the importance of Lenin, regarding the success of the Bolsheviks in the November Revolution of 1917, we must identify the factors that we can take into account. These include: Lenin's April Thesis, his effective use of “Peace, Land, Bread” and his ability to convince the Bolshevik Central Committee into an immediate revolution. However, in the course of the essay we will see that it is not only Lenin's leadership that is the reason for the Bolshevik success, but also the mistakes of the Provisional Government and its general weakness. Starting from Lenin's April Thesis we can analyze the key points which was structured around the idea of ​​"no support for the provisional government" and from here developed into a campaign to give all power to the soviets, or actually the Bolsheviks. The April Thesis basically outlined the plan for the November Revolution and essentially set the Bolsheviks on a path that would put them in the best possible position to take power when the time came. The April Thesis essentially gives us an idea of ​​the amount of planning that Lenin put into his seizure of power and without the April Thesis it is possible that the Bolshevik Party would not have such an established purpose. Bringing this back to the question, we see that Lenin actually set a goal for the Bolshevik Party to follow and when the Bolshevik Party took power it acted as a manifesto until it managed to create a fully established one. Now we have established the importance of In the April Thesis we can now consider the importance of “Peace, Land, Bread” which served as an appeal to the revolutionaries during the November Revolution, despite the importance that some historians attribute to it we can in fact say it was.. .... half of the document ... it was only Lenin's leadership that allowed the Bolsheviks to take power in November 1917. On the other hand, if we consolidate the facts we have covered in the essay we can identify the key points that were capitalized by Lenin, such as the weakness of the Provisional Government and the use of its influence to motivate the Bolshevik Central Committee, we cannot deny that these were some of the most crucial factors regarding the Bolsheviks' seizure of power and without of them a November Revolution might not have happened. The result would be legitimate leadership within Russia and the Bolsheviks would be seen as the aggressors. Concluding this we can decide that it was not only Lenin who was the reason for the success of the Bolshevik coup, but rather a general period of instability within the Russian leadership and the Bolsheviks offered an alternative.