Lenin’s Revolution was not akin to the expelled Third Estate majority of 1789 forming the National Assembly, but a violent and conspiratorial affair that saw the overthrow of political discourse in Russian until at least 1991. Therefore, it is easy to conclude that the failure during the eighteenth century to create a united liberal political sphere caused by a failure to establish a widespread public sphere, or obshchevsto, and the arbitrary nature of autocracy, left Russian Populism and Marxism to descend into violence, culminating in a violent seizure of power by a minority party in 1917: Violence had hijacked political discourse and only war could ensue.
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