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Bolsheviks Party/regime
Adam Ulam - The Bolsheviks did not seize power, : they picked it up.
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Sheila Fitzpatrick
It was impossible to regard all citizens as equal when some of them where class enemies of the regime
In the 1920s, [the Bolsheviks] leaders held on the principle that state's intervention in matters of private sexual morality was undesirable
Kevin McDermott - The Party was highly selective, disciplined and hierarchical
Tsar regime weaknesses
R.B. McKeon - The Great War acted as the spark which set the combustible of the mass discontent alight
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Orlando Figes - the Romanov Regime feel under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown
Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in hands and at whom it is aimed
described artists as "engineers of the soul", arts should be "national in form, socialists in content"
Michael Lynch - Stalin's aim in culture, as in politics and economics, was total conformity
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Civil War
Trotsky
Robert Service
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This was no mere transport facility for the People's Commissar but a full military-political organisation
Michael Lynch - Throughout the struggle, the Reds were sustained by a driving sense of purpose
Lenin
Adam Ulam - Lenin allowed mass terror not only to be practised, but to become legitimate nd respectable
Vladmir Lenin - The illiterate person stands outside of politics. First it is necessary to teach him his ABCs. Without it, there are only rumours, fairy tales and prejudices, but not politics
Trotsky
Dmitri Volkogonov - Trotsky was not much of a military strategist and the key military decisions were taken by others
Robert Service - Trotsky was no angel...He trampled on the civil rights of millions of people, including the industrial workers
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