The Renaissance—influenced by Greco-Roman values, established the roots of humanism and its emphasis on the individual. Furthermore, the Protestant Reformation questioned the Church's historic authority and supported individualism. In addition, the Scientific Revolution also emphasized observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and cause-and-effect analysis, (which is the scientific method we use today).
Advances in the educational system and significant growth in the number of printed books contributed to the formation of a society that was more eager for knowledge than ever. These events sparked people's interest in the process of question and analysis, as they searched for solutions to life's issues in a variety of places.
Lenin began plotting an overthrow of the Provisional Government. To Lenin, the provisional government was a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.” He advocated instead for direct rule by the workers and peasants in a “dictatorship of the proletariat.
