... effect it had on the progression of events. The rhetoric of the early Communist Party, immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917 was effective in the extreme. With the Tsarist autocracy, and the highly ineffective provisional government of Kerensky in the recent memory of the people of Russia, Lenin found a receptive audience for his theories. The fact that the reality of life in Russia ... of the proletariat'. "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."" Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919 From this, it is relatively simple to...

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