Post 1917 - Bolshevik Leadership

... On the 25th October, 1917, the Bolshevik party finally gained official control over the entirety of Russia. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, having previously adapted the theory of Marxism to suit the bizarre, semi-feudal society of Russia, had many high hopes regarding the implementation of socialism, and the vast improvement of living standards for the lower classes. Unfortunately, however, Lenin was prevented from applying the majority of his proposed decrees due to the actions of counter-revolutionary groups, as well as the ill-informed actions of the increasingly political lower classes. The Bolshevik party inherited from the oppressive Tsarist regime a crippled country, pushed to the threshold of economic breakdown and famine by the basic nature of Tsarism, a method of government which ruthlessly manipulated the people, and thought little of providing comforts to the upper class at the bitter expense of the working classes. World War I added yet more pressure to the

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