In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives (nepotism) as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for them.
They used chasqui(runners) for relaying messages throughout the empire and llamas and alpacas for transporting goods.
Europe's social structure was challenged by the growing number of free townspeople because they could not get a hold of everything already. With the addition of the increase of population, it is hard to divide resources and to everyone and this in return challenged the economy of the continent.
It might be this Lenin thought that Russia had lost the war with Germany and that the only realistic goal was peace at any price.!!
