1. "War communism was a reaction to the wartime conditions that
The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... Marx also believed that such political change was inevitable and that there are various stages driven by socio-economic forces. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. However, the actions of the Bolshevik party during the war, and certainly after, did not seem to be the actions of a party that followed Karl Marx's work so closely. ...
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