Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Sezvakavimbiswa kuvanhu vokuRussia muna October 1917, vaBolshevik vakarega kubatanidzwa kweRussia muHondo Huru musi waMarch 3, 1918. Mugore iroro, vaBolshevik vakasimbisa simba rehurumende nokudzinga vaMenshevik, Socialist Revolutionaries uye Left Socialist-Revolutionaries kubva kumaSoviet. Hurumende yeBolshevik yakabva yagadza mapurisa epachivande eCheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) kuti abvise kushorwa kwevaBolshevik munyika. Pakutanga, pakanga pane chishoro chakasimba kuhurumende yeBolshevik nemhaka yokuti yakanga isina kupedza kuperevedza kwezvokudya nourombo hwezvinhu zvavanhu veRussia sezvakapikirwa muna October 1917. Kubva mukusagutsikana ikoko munzanga, Cheka yakashuma kumukira 118, kubatanidza kumukira kweKronstadt
(7<unk>17 March 1921) mukurwisana nokuoma kwezvemari kweWar Communism yakatemerwa nemaBolshevik. Zvipingamupinyi zvikuru mukusimudzirwa kwehupfumi hweRussia nekuvandudzwa kwaive hurombo hukuru hwezvinhu uye kushomeka kwetekinoroji yazvino yaive mamiriro ayo orthodox Marxism yaifunga kuti haana kunaka kune shanduko yemakomonisiti. Kurima kweRussia kwakanga kwakakura zvakakwana kuti kugadzire capitalism, asi kwakanga kusina kukura zvakakwana kuti kugadzire socialism. Nokuda kweRussia yeBolshevik, nguva ya1921<unk>1924 yakaratidza kuitika panguva imwe chete kwekudzorerwa kwezvemari, nzara (1921<unk>1922) uye dambudziko rezvemari (1924). Pakazosvika 1924, kufambira mberi kukuru kwezvoupfumi kwakanga kwaitwa uye pakazosvika 1926 hurumende yeBolshevik yakanga yawana mwero wekugadzirwa kwezvoupfumi wakaenzana nemwero wekugadzirwa kweRussia muna 1913.