... a Free People's State. During the period when the proletariat still needs the State, it does not require it in the interests of freedom, but in the interests of crushing its antagonists."2 Lenin's use of violence is one of the most defining characteristics of his political rule. The culmination of this style of rule came with the formation of the Red Army ... ...

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