oh dear. There we go again. Let’s try and teach you some more things then
so your responses you believe you have a reasonable understanding of that part of history (your response to my comment about Lenin) and you then go on to talk about the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks with the latter winning the first election.
let’s get some history straight then
firstly there was a revolt in 1905 that forced change on the tsar with the establishment of a Dumas. A badly done affair that probably made things worse but at least gave the Russian people a taste of what might be possible. The lead up to this period is critically important to what happened just over a decade later. Much of the democratic sentiment was debated at length by Russian intellectuals but at all levels of society there was deep dissatisfaction with Nicholas and his approach to his rights and privileges
in February 1917 there was a revolt that saw a provisional government installed and the tsar removed. His successor refused the role which left a gaping hole to fill. The provisional government filled it. It was not the result of elections and compromised a number of different factions with the Mensheviks being only one of those factions. They were not elected, nor the majority and nor did they have the leadership role. They were not even in the majority in the leadership /cabinet group. . The lead up to this period needs to be viewed in a multidimensional way as there were so many different factors that influenced direction.
because the provisional government was ineffective (infighting, the power of the soviets (don’t try to give this a meaning it doesn’t have) and because they supported continuing the war - which had already caused deep unrest and misery - there was another revolution in October.
events preceding this revolution and the delivery of power to the Bolsheviks were messy and kerensky didn’t help much by exercising foolish judgment in trying to retain power. He offended the military and ultimately the bolsheviks gained power because the soviets backed them. This was pretty well a bloodless coup
to understand the October revolution you need to understand the machinations and struggles of different political ideologies that had preceded it.
to understand the civil war that followed you need to understand Lenin’s implacable determination to eliminate opposition from
you continue to make something of the Jewish involvement in a way that is senseless and entirely ignores the real dynamic operating at the time.
I’ve attached a link to a paper you might want to read that will help you to see that your understanding is simplistic and ill informed and in fact reflects the antisemitic sentiment in the west that chose to see the Russian revolution as a Jewish plot (and early form of Jewish conspiracy theory). It was an easy and lazy way to create opposition to communism which western countries feared as it turned power structures on their head.
if you read this maybe you will see the absurdity of your claim that Jews were privileged. They were never privileged as a group
I don’t know how to help you see his deeply flawed your thinking is but understand how you arrive there. Maybe the difference between us is I am and have been for decades curious about Russia and its history, I studied Russian during the Cold War period and was taught by people who had escaped the soviets but understood the importance of accurate history and our texts included Soviet literature so that we might understand that period.
you have come to this late and have been shaped by finding out something you didn’t know / but for whatever reason you have stopped there
the revolutionary and early Soviet period is beyond complex. There are so many characters, ideologies and factors at play and jostling for power was intense. You cannot underestimate he influence of previous events either.
