How did the Bolsheviks successfully create the USSR? Where did they get their funding, how did they become so successful, can we replicate what they did and succeed again or was it very exclusively based on their particular historical situation?
How did the Bolsheviks Win?
Nathaniel Jenkins
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Jaxson Bennett
people power
Angel Fisher
Killing and imprisoning everyone that disagreed with them
Angel Reyes
They organized around a newspaper. The newspaper was a form of organizational activity that could be carried out in any situation, repression, lulls, mass protests, and so on. It functioned as an impetus to build a massive intelligence apparatus. It got the Bolsheviks connected with workers and struggles all over Russia. It solidified party stances and theory and got everyone on the same page. It trained the Bolsheviks in secrecy and smuggling.
Aside from that, they simply had correct stances on everything, worked hard, and agitated like hell.
Read WITBD and LWC to get an idea of what they did.
Gabriel Reed
Also
Angel Murphy
The Russian Empire imploded under the weight of its own totalitarianism, women workers rioted and got the army to join them when the socialist liberal government run by Kautsky continued to dump Russians into an unpopular war.
The Bolsheviks benefited both from being in the right place at the right time, having a functioning party structure with which to capitalize on instability and direct worker action, and a little help from the German Empire bringing Lenin back to Russia where he was able to directly guide party activities.
Camden Lopez
Most of it had to do with the fact that he Russian Empire was a failed state by 1917. No amount of clever organizing or brilliant praxis can make up for the presence of proper economic and political conditions for revolution, which is typically far outside our control.
Austin Thomas
Like counterrevolutionaries and monarchists
Adrian Powell
Brayden Reed
It's almost as though you don't read your own propaganda.