Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... The establishment of the October manifesto under Tsar Nicholas II was an attempt to re-establish support from the masses. The manifesto promised a more democratic constitution ' no law can come into force without its approval by the State Duma and that the elected representative will ...

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