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 event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due to the numerous revolutionary groups; such force only ba...

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The inefficiency of only taxing the lower estates showed in the government's budget. ... By the 1795, the government had passed into the hands of the five-main directory. ... One such coup succeeded and Napoleon Bonaparte formed a Consulate government with significant ease. ... Local governments became highly centralised. ... Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. ...

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The Allied powers soon recognized the provisional government; it was considered the 'legal successor' to the Czarist government. ... Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. ... A huge armed demonstration was held against the Provisional Government in Petrograd, on July 17, 1917. ... However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. ... Thus a war was declared between totalitarian dictatorship and democratic socialism, between Marxism and ...

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"1 Many would argue that the 1917 October revolution would have not succeeded had it not been for the weakness of the provisional government, or the Petrograd soviets assistance. ... Steve Phillips on the other hand suggests that "By October 1917 the Bolsheviks were in a position to succeed in seizing power from the provisional government although by this time the Provisional Government wielded little power of its own"3 Phillips looks towards a compromise that many historians support, however Philip's fails to acknowledge the fact that the provisional government lost much of its supp...

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His regime was utterly ruthless and therefore the most efficient of the totalitarian dictatorships. ... When the government came to realise the increasing amount of unrest that was growing among the peasants as a result of the government's failure to provide a liveable wage from collectivised farming, Stalin issued the Kolhoz Charter in February 1935. ... The school curriculum was dosed with ideological instruction and as one teacher identified, here was also a hidden curriculum been enforced by the government. ...

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