... ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. Although these revolutionary intelligentsias established a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and pragmatic reforms that placated the masses, the working class were volatile and indecisive in their loyalties ... that the Reds would have triumphed against the Whites in the Civil War without it. The Communist Party pursuance of the economic policy was a key factor that demonstrated the party's ideologic...

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