Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... The government continued with demolishing the old machinery of coercion, the legal system, the police, conscription, bureaucracy, and discipline in the Red Army. ... These reforms demonstrate the democratic side of Bolshevism as it successfully yielded popularity when the government was fragile and lacked a traditional machinery of power because they appealed to the populace. ... Lenin re...

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But as we can see there are some opposing parties in the alliance already in form of Germany and France the last one having a contract to honor and the first being the primary weapons distributor for Russia. ... There have been reports on Blackwater soldiers working for the Ukrainian government or army, though these reports are yet to be confirmed by official sources. ...

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