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==Introduction==
Russia was the first place where a Marxist political party ever took power and began to implement [[Marxism|Marxist]] policy following the [[October Revolution]] on November 7th, 1917. During the [[Second All-Russian Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies' Soviets|Second Congress of Soviets]] the [[Bolsheviks]] won enough seats alongside the [[Left SRs]] to vote in favor of an armed revolution establishing The [[All-Russian Central Executive Committee]] as the highest governing organ and the [[Council of People's Commissars]] established as the executive authority to government day to day affairs with [[Vladimir Lenin]] as its [[Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars|Chairman]]<ref>{{Citation|author=Orlando Figes|year=2014-05-31|title=The October Revolution 1917|title-url=http://www.orlandofiges.info/section6_TheOctoberRevolution1917/LeninandtheOctoberCoup.php|chapter=Lenin and the October Coup|section=section 6|page=|quote=|location=|publisher|isbn=|doi=|series=|volume=|trans-lang=|image=}}</ref>
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