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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: It is a commonplace to say that Russia is ruled, driven if you
like, cold, starving as she is, to effort after effort by the
dictatorship of a party. It is a commonplace alike in the
mouths of those who wish to make the continued existence
of that organization impossible and in the mouths of the
Communists themselves. At the second congress of the
Third International, Trotsky remarked. "A party as such, in
the course of the development of a revolution, becomes
identical with the revolution." Lenin, on the same occasion,
replying to a critic who said that he differed from, the
Communists in his understanding of what was meant by the
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