Ending Russian involvement in the Great War
Lenin considered that, although the workers revolution in Germany was imminent, the Kaiser's government was still very strong. According to Lenin, continuing the war would mean the effective invasion of Russia by the Germans and the fall of the Bolshevik regime because of its own military weakness. Lenin claimed that the subsequent outbreak of other "Soviet revolutions" in the rest of Europe would allow Russia to recover the land ceded to the Germans, 1 but that it was necessary for the Russian Bolshevik government to survive until then.