I’m slightly bolstered by the knowledge the Bolsheviks were small and barely existent and then their membership ballooned all of a sudden from a few key decisions. Hell, they were still basically the minority when they took control during the October Revolution. It’s just nobody liked the alternatives, so they just needed people not to get in their way or fight for the other side.

I’ve been teetering between this comforting knowledge of positive history and black-pilled knowledge of times it’s gone terribly (all the fascism, the failed revolutions, etc).