e revolution" ("Russian History 1905-30"). In 1921, at the Kronstadt naval base, workers attempted to elect a soviet. They also issued a declaration, which called for the reestablishment of the democratic soviets, and an end to censorship of speech and press. The workers, the sailors, and many members of the Bolshevik party supported these actions. However, official Leninist forces stormed the base, killing many of the rebels who were unable to escape. Leninism had demonstrated that it was opposed to a representative government designed with the wants of the workers in mind. All of the defining policies of Stalinism were either policies that had originally being instituted by Leninism, policies called for by Leninism but not put into action until Stalinism, or else Leninist policies modified to fit the needs of the situation. Stalinism was a logical continuation of Leninism....
