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  1. Bolsheviks

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    The Period of Dual Power (February–October 1917)
    Following the collapse of Tsarist authority in the February Revolution, the Bolsheviks operated initially as a powerful, albeit minority, faction within the broader revolutionary landscape dominated by the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin's/) return from exile in April 1917 marked a decisive ideological turn. His [April Theses](/en…

  2. Bolsheviks

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    Following the collapse of Tsarist authority in the February Revolution, the Bolsheviks operated initially as a powerful, albeit minority, faction within the broader revolutionary landscape dominated by the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet. Lenin's/) return from exile in April 1917 marked a decisive ideological turn. His April Theses' rejected cooperation with the […

  3. Bolsheviks

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    | :--- | :--- | :--- |
    | Peace, Land, and Bread | Workers, Soldiers, Peasants | Direct appeal addressing wartime exhaustion and economic scarcity. |
    | All Power to the Soviets | Soviet-Members, Anti-Provisional Gov't Elements | Undermined the authority of the liberal government. |
    | Dictatorship of the Proletariat | Party Cadres | Theoretical justification for autocratic rule post-seizure. |

  4. Bolsheviks

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    The years of the Russian Civil War (1918–1921) cemented Bolshevik control through systematic militarization of the economy and society, often termed War Communism. This policy involved forced grain requisitioning (prodrazvyorstka), the abolition of private trade, and the severe restriction of labour rights, including the institution of labour armies.
    During this period, Bolshevik political control over non-Bolshevik groups, including rival socialist parties and the nominally independent [Soviets](/entries/…

  5. Dictatorship Of The Proletariat

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    The term was initially developed by Karl Marx, most explicitly in his analysis of the 1848 revolutions and later in his correspondence concerning the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx conceived of the DoP not as a permanent structure but as the 'first phase' of a communist society, characterized by the necessary centralization of all means of production under state control, wielded by the [working cl…