5. Survival and consolidation of Bolshevik rule

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.
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- The Treaty of Brest Litovsk
- Russian Civil War
- Terror and Coercion
- War Communism and New Economic Policy