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There are many examples in history of governments embarking on reforms without intuition about the potential repercussions. Often a relentless process is begun. It is doubtful that Henry VIII anticipated the full consequences of disestablishing the pope’s power over the Church in England. Even Martin Luther was unaware of the ecclesiastical revolution he was unleashing when calling for the papacy’s transformation.
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See S. V. Kharmandaryan, Lenin i stanovlenie Zakavkazskoi federatsii,1921–1923 (Erevan, 1969), p. 104.
See A. S. Lindemann, The ‘Red Years’ (Berkeley, 1974), pp. 283–6.
See John Erickson, The Soviet High Command. A Military-Political History (London, 1962), pp. 128–31 and 150–1.
See S. White, Empire and Revolution (London, 1979), pp. 24–5.
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Service, R. (1995). The Rifle and Sickle. In: Lenin: A Political Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05594-4_7
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