Revolutions, Episode Ten Point 92

This week we turn our attention back to events inside russia. In the three years since the october revolution, the people of russia had endured enormous hardships and borne often horendous treatment by the communist regime. With no greater evil to hold up in comparison, the workers and peasants of russia appraised the communists on their own merits, with an undistracted eye,. And so the communists faced threats, not from white armies or western allies or rival neighbors, but their own people.