a. Initial policies, terror and end of the war
After 1917 the Bolsheviks developed from a fledgling Communist Party with tenuous control over much of Russia and fighting for existence, to a secure one-Party state which laid the foundations for Stalin's totalitarian regime in the 1930s. The specified content covered on this page is: What initial policies did the Bolsheviks carry out in order to secure power? What was the nature of the ‘terror’ that was used by the...