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In 1921 the Bolsheviks established their control of the Russia Empire. They were able to do this as a result of taking advantage of the current political and social situations in the country at the time. The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the main minority of the Social Democratic Labour Party. As all anti-tsarist groups the party was illegal. The party was based upon the beliefs of Karl Marx, a German writer and revolutionary, who believed …

…ran most of the country. As a result of oppositional weakness, precise leadership and planning Lenin and Trotsky were able to have the revolution they had waited for so long. Russia was now a communist state under the control of Lenin. This communist rule would last until the early nighnties. It was one of the most, if not the most, important events that shaped Russia's and the U.S.S.R.'s history. Jonathan Brocklehurst