By Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Russian History
Soviet Union
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Which was easier to launch in such conditions. would soon spread to other countries and would hand over the direction of the movement to fraternal parties that were more worthy of it. But although the second proposition proved to be false, the first appeared as a result in a new light. The workers undoubtedly played a major role in the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. Throughout the civil war they continued to provide the Soviet army and administration with their most dedicated cadres. But this war caused an incalculable loss of lives and installations.
They would have been incapable of stopping its petit-bourgeois decline. Lenin knew this,14 and his worst fears were that the Party might be drowned in the great flood of the all-powerful Russian petite bourgeoisie. On the other hand, he was far less aware of a danger that was appearing from a quite different direction. The Party, which had to govern the workers that had remained outside its organization, adopted the same attitude towards those workers that had joined its ranks-and this domination was even more apparent in the case of members of other social classes that had been admitted.
The central place accorded to the Party in the Leninist strategy and the somewhat voluntarist interpretation that Leninism gave Marxism should not, however, lead us to impute to it, as sometimes has been done, all the responsibility for phenomena such as the gradual shrinking of political power that eventually culminated in an autocracy. Leninist doctrine did not originally envisage a monolithic state, nor even a strictly monolithic party; the dictatorship of the Party over the proletariat was never part of Lenin's plans, it was the completely unforeseen culmination of a series of unforeseen circumstances.
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