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What were the main demands of April Thesis?

When Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin returned in April 1917, he decided that there was a need for some change. So Lenin declared three demands which came to be known as April Thesis. The main demands of the April Thesis were:

• He found it necessary that war should be taken seriously, and it was the time to wage war so that Soviets could take over the power.


• As mostly lands were under the ownership of state and some were held by rich or well to do peasants. So he wanted that land should now be transferred to the peasants.


• Banks were held under the control of the rich people, and they controlled it completely. His third demand that Banks should be nationalised.


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