The policies of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union underwent significant changes since the October Revolution in 1917 until 1921. These transformations were an outcome of the precarious political, social and economic state of post World War I Russia. The adaptations made to their policies were created as a method of ensuring communist power.
• 2 political hurdles had to be faced by the Bolshevik party – political survival and economic backwardness. These two problems gradually led them away from their original goals and force them to build a society similar to Tsarist Russia.
• The congress immediately passed 2 decrees on peace and land. The first proposed immediate negotiations to end the war and the second abolished private ownership of land.
• The new government did not command much power as they did not have a traditional machinery of power. There were no bureaucrats, soldiers or police whose obedience it could take for granted. When the new commissars......
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