Question

The main tenets of April Theses during the Bolshevik Revolution were:
A. Closing the war, shifting of lands polling by government
B. Formation of labour government, bank nationalisation and land distribution
C. Communist governments, land fragmentation and merger of banks
D. Ending the war, bank nationalisation and land transfer.

Answer 1

Hint: The April Theses is a program that was developed by Vladamiir Lenin during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. It is a series of ten directives.

Complete answer:
The directives in the April Theses were mostly for the fellow Bolsheviks in Russia who were coming back from exile to Russia. The authority of the Tsar had become oppressive and people were poverty stricken. There were voices of revolution emerging from Russian Social Democratic Party. After Lenin came back from his exile he set down the April Theses. The main tenets of April Theses during the Bolshevik Revolution were ending the war, bank nationalisation and land transfer. He gave a call to the Bolsheviks and asked them not to cooperate with the government. Lenin wanted new communist policies.
The Ten demands of the April Theses were:
1. No support to the bourgeoisie provisional government
2. Russia was passing the first stage of revolution to the second which takes the power away from the hands of the Bolsheviks to the proletarians.
3.Lenin calls for Soviet of Workers, agricultural labourers.
4. Calls for the elimination of police, army and the bureaucracy.
5. He demanded the nationalisation of banks, taking away private lands and emphasis on agrarian programmes.
6. Recognised the Bolsheviks as a minority and felt that the petite bourgeoisie were yielding their ideas to spread it among the proletarians.
7. Establishment of a single national bank to be controlled by Soviet of Workers Deputies.
8. Lenin stated that the immediate aim was not to establish socialism but to bring the process of production and distribution under the Soviet of Workers Deputies.
9.Lenin gave a call to the Bolsheviks to call themselves the ‘Communist Party’ instead of the ‘Social Democracy’.
10. Establishment of a new International.

Hence, Option D is the correct answer.

Note: The April Theses had set the ground for the July Days and October Revolution that is associated with Leninism. After the April Theses came the October revolution in 1917 led by the Bolshevik Party Vladamir Lenin.