Also their popularity in the countryside suffered only really due to them collectivizing the land after passing a land reform that created a owning farmers class out of a population of feudal serfs, who obviously had the interest of holding on to that newly found land ownership the Bolsheviks granted them.
Before they took over, more than 75% of the population couldn’t even read, so how would they be able to think for themselves and be mobilized by a party whose main organ is a newspaper?
But what am I even doing here, you obviously don’t know your history and are not interested in learning.
Also their popularity in the countryside suffered only really due to them collectivizing the land after passing a land reform that created a owning farmers class out of a population of feudal serfs, who obviously had the interest of holding on to that newly found land ownership the Bolsheviks granted them.
Before they took over, more than 75% of the population couldn’t even read, so how would they be able to think for themselves and be mobilized by a party whose main organ is a newspaper?
But what am I even doing here, you obviously don’t know your history and are not interested in learning.