how did the bolsheviks create a socialist society in Russia. explain with example.
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Before 1914, Russia was a big country with inefficient farmed landed estates with many peasants being exploited by their landlords. The Russian Social Democratic Party was divided into 2 separate parties, the Mensheviks (minority) and the Bolsheviks (majority).
The Bolsheviks urged the need for illegal activities and organizations and they believed that the power in Russia would proceed towards a revolution in Western Europe.
The illegal organization of the Bolsheviks had 3 fundamental slogans – a democratic republic, expropriation and authority over the landowners, and a 8-hour day.
The Bolsheviks later called for an armed demonstration of the soldiers and workers with slogans putting down the Capitalist government.
The Bolsheviks propaganda was making a continual headway and later a Bolshevik was elected as the President of the Krondstadt Soviet.
Answer:
- After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took dictatorial control.
- They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin.
- It promised the workers would rise, destroy capitalism, and create a socialist utopia under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.