However, if such offences were committed on a large scale in a non-democratic country there still remains the threat of popular unrest and revolution which helps to keep the regime in check. ... Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought legitimacy as defenders of the revolution and then subsequently leading the people towards their goal, whether the people wanted it or not. ...

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The Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 and the Rice Riots of 1918 energized radical thought, and there were movements calling for universal male suffrage1, the social, economic and political liberation of women, and the end of the existing social order entirely. ...

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