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Lenin deviated massively from Marxist principles on the requirements for a succesful communist revolution. It was a campaign of political repression and mass killings carried out by the Bolsheviks—chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police—in mid-1918 after the beginning of the Russian Civil War. Arising after an assassination attempt on Vladimir Lenin, the Red Terror was modeled on the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and sought to eliminate opposition, political dissent, and any other threat to Bolshevik power while the complete opposite of Marx's view of a communist revolution.
