... 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 ... the ideological flexibility of the Bolsheviks. In the earlier months of Bolshevik rule, the party struggled for power through its main source of support – workers and pea...

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