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What Were First Steps After Bolshevik Revolution?

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What Were First Steps After Bolshevik Revolution?

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The selection below describes some of the first steps taken by the Bolshevik-led soviet government that came to power 80 years ago in the October 1917 revolution in Russia. It is excerpted from the first volume of Revolutionary Continuity: Marxist Leadership in the U.S. by Farrell Dobbs from the chapter titled, “First Workers’ State.” The book is copyright 1980 by the Anchor Foundation, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Subheadings are by the Militant. The welfare of the peasants and oppressed nations was bound up with the fate of the unfolding of the socialist revolution. As concrete action was taken to meet their needs, they could be induced to support broader measures required to safeguard these gains. To assure such an advance in fundamental outlook, however, these sections of the population had to be drawn into all aspects of the continuing struggle on an extensive scale against the exploiters and conditions of life they had created…. Distribution of land to poor peasants Landed e

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