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10.73- Zeno's Revolution

Revolutions

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The Bolsheviks Vowed to Evict the Peasants

As the bolsheviks drove towards power, this is what they were saying they were going to do with their power. And they were consciously ticking off each of the major constituencies they needed to win over. So for lenin, it didn't matter that in october 19 17, the bolshevik didn't technically havek any supporters among the peasantry who formed the mass ma ority of russia. Who cares? When the bolsheviks take power, we will transfer land from the large estates to the peasants and voala, all the peasants will love us. But if those were the desires to be fulfilled, what about the fears to be prevented? This was mostly aimed

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