The rise of the Bolsheviks can be seen as result of an intense campaign of propaganda, in the form of written material, as well as rallies and speeches designed to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Bolshevik movement. The provisional government did not succeed in developing the reforms it promised when they overthrown the Tsar. The campaign focused on portraying the current administration and their allies as incompetent and then offering the Bolsheviks as the alternative party. Lenin, under his slogan, promised several reforms for the Russian society, such as land reform, end to the war and increase in Russia's food supply. This had an extremely popular acceptance by the peasantry and contributed significantly for the support for the Bolsheviks movement.
The land of western Russia lies closer to European countries such as Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Finland. The geographic area west of the Ural Mountains is considered European Russia.
