The "Red Guards," were a big part of the Bolshevik's army. ... "In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." ... "...It would be an infinite crime on the part of the revolutionaries were they to let the chance slip, knowing that the salvation of the revolution, the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to ...

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The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. ... Lenin as an individual played an essential role in the October revolution. From February to the revolution Lenin managed to raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. ... Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik party would not have been able to cling to power during 1920 and 1921. ... The Kronstadt sailors were hardened veterans of the Revolution and supported the Bolsheviks seizure of power. ...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... The Bolsheviks also introduced the banning of private trade. ... The peasants also suffered at the hands of the Bolsheviks. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious and as it turned out prematur...

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