Word: leninization
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...than two months after the seizure of power, the remains of the Tsarist army, soon to be joined by 14 foreign powers, attacked the Bolshevik regime and plunged Russia into a state of physical and economic desolation. Those who had lived with hope and excitement through the days of Lenin's victory could not help feeling betrayal and disgust at the severe, quasi-dictatorial methods which the government now employed to deal with an increasingly desperate situation. The miniscule rations in the cities, the forced requisitioning of peasant grain, the growth of a centralized, omnipotent bureaucratic machine-all seemed...
...effect, demanding the implementation of the government's own political and economic promises; at the outset, at least. they sought no breach with the party, but rather unity on the basis of the programs for which they and the party had struggled for so long. The sailors' echo of Lenin's slogan, "All power to the Soviets" represented a threat to the Bolshevik government under siege, but in the insurgents view the party itself, under less adverse conditions, would have stood for no less...
...since its entrance into the World War in 1914, and the Bolsheviks had never known power under any but the most extremely dire conditions. Some party members argued for a complete relaxation of nationwide economic sanctions; others, such as Trotsky, advocated an even tighter regulation of farming and industry. Lenin, not wanting to move too precipitously, decided for the moment to continue with the present policy of arbitrary rations and forced requisitioning; yet he did this, as it turned out, at the expense of his own favor and credibility...
...approached subsistence levels and the populace began blaming the party for all the misfortune. Labor protest crippled Petrograd in February 1921, and peasant revolt flared as never before. The government deftly maneuvered itself out of these crises but nevertheless felt the blow, and at a party congress in March, Lenin finally introduced the agricultural liberalization that was to become the cornerstone of his New Economic Policy...
...Lenin's policy change, however, came too late to avert the Kronstadt uprising. The sailors, mostly of peasant origin, had visited their homes after the end of the civil war and saw for the first time how difficult life was for their families in the countryside. They, too, blamed the party for most of the nation's ills; after all, had the government not carried out the forcible seizure of peasant grain, and in many instances denied the farmers even a subsistence of their own produce...