1. The Bolsheviks: Ideology of Power
In the earlier months of Bolshevik rule, the party struggled for power through its main source of support – workers and peasants. ... Civil War (1918-1920) significantly altered the Bolsheviks structure of ruling- from a disorderly yet democratic system into a 'dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... The Communist Party pursuance of the economic policy was a key factor that demonstrated the party's ideological flexibility in its adoption of War Communism. In 1918, the need to fight a civil war and to build a socialist society were the two distinct burdens the communist party fa...
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