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10.75- The People's Commissars

Revolutions

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The Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars

Kaminef and his faction still believed they needed to enter some kind of coalition government with the other socialist parties in order to survive. But while these decrees proliferated in the streets, lenin and the bolsheviks simultaneously crafted the foundation of a highly centralized one party dictatorship. The local village and the individual factory committee would wield most of the power. It was an inverted power structure that was practically drawn straight out of the pages of the anarchists.

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