In 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, promised the first truly “free” election in Russia.
All votes would be equal. Lenin’s Bolsheviks, the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, promised “Peace, Land and Bread.” The promise was insufficient to win the election and the Bolsheviks received just 23 percent of the ...
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