How Did Bolsheviks Become Socialist

To the different classes of people the Bolvshevik revolutionaries offered “bread, peace, land.” The Bolvsheviks were able to gain power over the democratic government because they were the best organizaed, had the best propaganda, and wanted to bring peace to Russia. The Bolvshevik’s had the vision of a global Marxist revolution where the world would succumb to the utopia formed under socialism. Lenin a staunch Marxist and the leader of the Bolvshevik’s employed strategies that aligned with the Bolvsheviks platform but also detracted against the parties platform. The Bolvshevik party was aimed at a global socialist revolution. When Lenin decided that in order to maintain the government currently in place they must make peace with Germany. He was met with resistance from his own party, they saw as making peace with imperialist was stopping the international socialist revolution. Instead of making peace they should revolutionize the country. (Pipes 167)
Socialist’s aim was, “to allocate human and material resources in a rational manner, with regard to their maximal utility, should be able to attain unprecedented levels of efficiency.” War Communism, nationalized the means of production and transportation, liquidated private commerce, abolition of moneh, singlular planned economy, and compulsory labor for all able bodied male adults. These actions taken slowed the war effort which aligned with the Bolvsheviks ideal of peace. Trotsky saw War Communism as a way of “realizing genuine communism.” The party saw this plan as essential to pushing forward socialism within Russia, but it did see it destructive. The results of the plan were horrible, nearly 80% of production was lost (Pipes