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Describe the steps taken by the Bolsheviks to secure power between the October Revolution of 1917-22.
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Describe the steps taken by the Bolsheviks to secure power between the October Revolution of 1917-22 For the Bolsheviks seizing power was the easy part, staying in power was to be much more difficult. Many Bolsheviks' opponents thought they would only stay in power for only a few weeks at the most. In this essay I am going to describe the actions taken by the Bolsheviks to secure power between the years of 1917-22. The Bolsheviks did not control the whole of Russia, and the World War had left the Russian economy in ruins. There were very low investment and high inflation. The Treaty of Brest Litarsk only made matters worse as they lost a lot of land, some of the population, a lot of coal and steel reserves. It was meant to improve the economy but it did not as industrial production ceased ad this caused grain requisitioning. Lenin's greatest problem therefore...
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