... a disorderly yet democratic system into a 'dictatorship of the Communist Party. Against Marxist ideologies, the Bolsheviks employed terrorist tactics, which consisted of the abolishment of soldiers' committees, the reestablishment of the death penalty and conscription, the reinstatement of social hierarchy and the reinstatement of Tsarists officers as 'military specialists', which anti-Communist historian Richard Pipes argues "exceeded in savagery anything known in the ... antagonisms; the proletariat resented them due to their conspicuous consumption and desires to "get-rich-quic...

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