I'm not a Bolhevik-hater, but their support base was in the urban working classes, which was a minority of the population.
----- Original Message ---- From: Joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
Chris raving about pre Bolshevik Russia
The reason the Bolshevik revo succeeded with not much blood spilled, until the civil war was seeded by western powers, is because the soldiers came back from the war barefoot and hungry and found a starving population. Read Tolstoy, read Chekhov, read Dostoevsky, read Gogol -- I know you have. They describe a Russia ripe for revolution.
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