... currently experiencing. Whilst he thinks that Lenin didn't seek to rule in such a brutal manner, it appears that it was the only choice he had due to the state of the country. Pipes, the author of source B, also talks of the society in which 'extreme poverty and insecurity were the rule', making it sound like the country needed discipline and somebody to really take control of things so that at least some of the current problems could be eradicated. Source A, taken from 'Lenin and the Russian Revolution' by Hill, also suggests that Russian society was certainly facing very difficult times, mentioning the 'poor and the downtrodden' and how he believes that the Russian Revolution did actually help them. The Bolshevik party sought to make examples of people, sending many thousands to their deaths, so that people in the future would be deterred by what they had already seen ...

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