1. The Bolsheviks: Ideology of Power
Against Marxist ideologies, the Bolsheviks employed terrorist tactics, which consisted of the abolishment of soldiers' committees, the reestablishment of the death penalty and conscription, the reinstatement of social hierarchy and the reinstatement of Tsarists officers as 'military specialists', which anti-Communist historian Richard Pipes argues "exceeded in savagery anything known in the tsarist armies." The Bolsheviks new social order contrasted with their envisaged Socialist society; nevertheless, these extremities consolidated Bolshevik power, as it is doubtful that ...
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