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Freeing peasants and workers from oppression was one of the main messages of the Bolsheviks. The peasants in the country side where happy to get rid of the landowning class and supported socialist ideas of land reform but once the Bolshevoks turned to War Communism to maintain their power against the Whites and other forces, the reluctant support of the peasants dropped - and in 1920 they turned to open revolt.

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