Lenin promised that the government would contain no one from the middle class

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November 1917, "At 1 a.m. on November 8th, a shabbily dressed man got to his feet and rose to speak. He took away a handkerchief from his face and was instantly recognised as Lenin. He told those in the Smolny Institute that

• he was forming a government of Bolsheviks and

that it would contain no middle class people. The government would work to help the workers and peasants."...(3rd parag. fr. end)

"His(Lenin's) middle class background was not held against him as he had been in prison for his beliefs and he was seen by the workers as the man to lead them."...(2nd parag.)

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