oneday wrote:How exactly did this happen?
A lack of unity among the different parties involved both ideologically and practically was a big problem especially during war time. Many members of non-Bolshevik socialist parties stood in direct contradiction to the vision the Bolsheviks had for a Soviet socialist future; and as a result led to many parties disbanding, assimilating themselves into the Bolshevik party, splitting into pro and anti Bolshevik camps, while others were annihilated when they allied with the whites against the Bolsheviks. The multi-party system disappeared with the victory of the Reds over the Whites.
Nevertheless the Congress of Soviets retained its function as the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union under another name: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
oneday wrote:What was the justification for this happening?
Well I guess that's something everyone has to decide for themselves. For me it was when the combined forces of the capitalist bastards invaded our Socialist Motherland when it was still in the womb. A reminder of what the combined might of the foreign capitalist military intervention by western estimates consisted of:
70,000 Japanese in Siberia
60,000 Czechoslovak legionaries in Siberia
23,351 Greeks in the Crimea, Odessa and Kherson
17,000 Americans in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions
11,500 Estonians in northwestern Russia
6,000 French and British troops in Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Odessa, and the Caucasus
2,500 Italians in the Arkhangelsk region and Siberia
2,300 Chinese in the Vladivostok region
1,500 Australians in the Arkhangelsk region
1,000 Canadians in the Caucasus