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How was the Bolshevik state consolidated between 1921 and 1924? Anarchy swept across Russia, chaos and mayhem rampant after the October Revolution. Urban revolution had degenerated into violence and lawlessness. A hooligan and criminal element was evident in the social revolution and the Bolsheviks control over the situation was little or none at all. Outside of the capital, in the provinces the establishment of Bolshevik power was almost always accompanied by violence and plundering of the houses and shops of the bourgeoisie. Lenin's class war gave Bolshevik soldiers and sailors free license to loot the burzhui and sometimes carry out unspeakable acts of violence. The 1921 famine may have claimed as many as five million people. It was partly caused by a drought in southern Russia, which led to crop failures. But it was also caused by the Bolshevik requisitioning program which had depleted the peasant's reserve stocks of grain and...

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