Lenin and the Russian Revolution

In February 1917, the centuries-old empire of the Czars collapses. Eight months later, revolutionaries under Lenin`s leadership, take power. Few would have gambled on this government of inexperienced militants against a force of armed counter-revolutionaries sustained by the West. But mobilization of the people, the power of the Red Army and political police, the experience gained during the war and, not least, Lenin`s skill in directing the new political economy, allow the Bolsheviks to strengthen their hold.