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How did Lenin achieve an abrupt transition from a Monarchical autocratic to a Socialist State?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Within eight months of the Tsar's abdication in February 1917, Vladimir Lenin had turned a small, marginalised faction of Russian socialists into the ruling party of the world's first avowedly socialist state — a transformation this answer traces as a deliberate feat of political engineering rather than an inevitable unfolding.

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  • The April Theses: Rejecting the Provisional Government
  • Organisational Discipline and the Power of Slogans
  • The October Seizure of Power via the Military Revolutionary Committee
  • Consolidating the Socialist State
  • Assessing the Transition

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