... above ideological purity. Bolshevik 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 due to ... the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed on 3rd March 1918, as the party forged a reluctant alliance with Capitalism. Lenin realized that Russia was too frag...

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