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Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run

Real Dictators

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Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution

The leadership accepted that Lenin had to be protected and stay in exile. Piletedly, the Tsar agrees to some social and political reforms. Political parties are legalised for the first time. Amnesty is granted to many political prisoners. The rules on censorship are relaxed. But this is still the Tsar's Russia, so he retains the right to overrule it at will.

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