1. The Bolsheviks: Ideology of Power
... ideal Bolshevik policies, to retain their power, Lenin prioritized pragmatism, ruthless terror and political survival 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 ... discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control ...
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