Bryson Handy’s Reviews > The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality > Status Update

I cannot stand when:
a) left-wing authors pretend the Bolsheviks had majority support for their overthrow of the provisional government (they had a nearly super majority of the army and plurality of urban residents but nowhere near a majority of the people of the Russian empire)

b) that Bolshevik despotism began somehow under Stalin. The Red Terror, one-party rule, the Cheka, this all began under lenin