Question

what steps were taken to suppress the bolsheviks

Answer 1

They didn’t take any steps and never made or had a hope in hell of making Russia socialist . If the bolsheviks existed today with over a hundred years of industrial development socialism would still be impossible . The best the bolsheviks could have done was advocate socialism and try an educate the people what socialism is , this obviously they didn’t do , power was the overwhelming factor and any thoughts of anti-statism had to be quelled