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regime came into beingbut it succeeded only by a tacit compromise with
the peasantry. This compromise enabled the revolutionaries to set up their
government and rule in the citiesand allowed the peasants in their villages
to live more or less as they saw ?t.
The Bolsheviks attempted to carry out extremely ambitious plansbut
they possessed very little power; the gap bet [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n intentions and reality was
extraordinarily wide. In a peculiar way the very weakness of the Party at a
time of anarchy encouraged utopian thinking. It made little sense to be “re-
alistic” when no realistic solutions seemed available. The period of the civil
war was a utopian periodwhen the Bolsheviks attempted fanciful schemes
undertaken with high hopesbut usually with little result.
Both because of their background as revolutionariesand because of their
ideologythe Bolsheviks possessed a keen appreciation of the signi?cance of
propaganda and mass mobilization. They constantly attempted – some-
times in prosaic wayssometimes using imaginative methods – to bring their
message to the people. Such an approach was extremely useful in winning
the civil war – after which they did not abandon such effortsbut on the
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