Résumé automatique par l’Intelligence Artificielle :
The October Revolution created the necessary conditions for the working class to seize power in Soviet Russia. However, the power began to slip away before it could be consolidated. The fact that the first successful worker’s revolution in the world took place in an underdeveloped country and remained isolated was a determining factor. The severe socio-economic crisis that led to the revolution was exacerbated by the civil war. The working class in Russia was small, and the industrial proletariat was a minority within it. Many industrial workers joined the Red Army and died during the civil war, others worked in the party and state apparatus, and many dispersed in search of survival means, mainly in the countryside and also in the black market. By the end of the civil war, the number of industrial workers had been reduced by more than half compared to the pre-war period.