 German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg echoed Kautsky's views, while the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin described the Bolshevik seizure of power as "the burial of the Russian Revolution".Upon taking power, Lenin believed that a key policy of his government must be to withdraw from the First World War by establishing an armistice with the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary.He believed that ongoing war would create resentment among war-weary Russian troops—to whom he had promised peace—and that these troops and the advancing German Army threatened both his own government and the cause of international socialism.