How did the supporters of the russian revolution fare better than the opponents?

Question by RahRah: How did the supporters of the russian revolution fare better than the opponents?
Please some help, i would be heaps grateful

To explain the question a little more, its the supporters since the start of the russian revolution till 1928 which is the consolidation period, how were their lives better than the opponents.

Eg the peasants. They started off in harsh conditions but soon they were granted more land and food.

Thats all I have, please help

thanks thanks

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Answer by Spellbound
Starting with the peasants.
The peasants under the Tsarist regime were tenant farmers with the village council, or Mir, periodically re-allocating the land according to each villager’s needs. The peasants wanted to own the land on which they worked. After the October Revolution they were granted their wishes and the landlords either fled or were arrested, some were lynched by their tenants. During the civil war period the peasants were treated very harshly; the policy of War Communism was a policy of state theft. Armed Bolsheviks went into the countryside to take any surplus grain they could find and troikas (tribunals of three Bolsheviks) set up to deal with those who hid their grain.
Under the next policy, the New Economic Policy, the peasants were allowed to keep their surpluses and to sell on the open market. The rural economy recovered to pre-war levels by about 1926.
The workers were very harshly treated under the Tsarist regime, extremely long hours, low pay and almost no political representation was the norm. As soon as the Bolsheviks got into power they nationalised all big enterprises, workers representation increased and conditions improved for most of them.
The intelligentsia, this group had a large number of Jewish members. They again were treated harshly by they Tsarist regime, they were distrusted and their were many conditions placed upon where Jews could live, what professions they could engage in and what access they had to education. All these restrictions were lifted after the October Revolution and there was an artistic flowering, with artists, writers, typographers, photographers and graphic designers being free to experiment with new styles.
See:
The Soviet Union 1917 – 1991 by Martin MacCauley
The Russian Experiment in Art – Matthew Cullerne-Bown

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