Lenin wrote many newspapers containing Marxist ideas and they spreader all over Russia. This lead to people thinking about revolution. Just like this quote says “...the spirit of revolution was spreading across all of Russia.” (Matt). Lenin was spreading was spreading ideals for the Marxist society getting people ready for change. The Social Democratic Labor party split up into two groups, one group being the Bolsheviks. Lenin became leader of this group which would prove to be useful and a very smart decision. When the Bolsheviks gained power Lenin was elected chairman. This would allow him to continue helping form Russia into a Marxist society. Before Lenin was elected chairman he still affected all the Russian people. He was able to start a “mass strike in Moscow.” (Matt). Which led to other strikes and turned into a revolt. If he didn't write his newspapers to influence the Russian people the Russian Revolution might not have