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Lenin believed that total repression of dissenting opinion as well as saturation with socialist Propaganda were necessary for a socialist revolution in Russia to be successful. He realized that the Russian Revolutions of 1917, especially the Bolshevik Revolution of October, were not true Marxian revolutions and that therefor the time was not ripe for Marxian socialism and eventually communism to take root. Marx believed that a society had to go through a period of industrialized capitalism to create the conflicting social classes of the bourgeoisie and proletariat. Once that occurred, the proletariat would overthrow the bourgeoisie. It would be a revolution by a class of people who were ready to embrace the socialist lifestyle.

This did not happen with Lenin's revolution. His was a political revolution in which his Bolshevik party, a minority political party, used military force to take over a weak government and seize power. It was not a revolution by an entire class of people. Most Russians, even socialists, were opposed to Lenin. Lenin put highly repressive measures in place to stifle all political dissent so that the people would not be convinced to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. The Russian peasants had no idea of being part of a social class who were now ready for a socialist lifestyle. To convince them otherwise, the peasants needed to be indoctrinated into that lifestyle by constant socialist propaganda that would create the necessary class consciousness for even the peasants to acquiesce to a new socialist order.

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Lenin believed a communist revolution could succeed if Russia withdrew from WW1 and if Germany lost WW1.

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Lenin thought that workers needed to be led by people such as himself and other authoritarians. The revolution he was part of in fact resulted in state capitalism, not Socialism.

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