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What was Berkman's view towards the Soviet's use of terror after seizing power?
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Opposed to the Soviet regime's use of terror to consolidate power after the revolution, Alexander Berkman, an anarchist and prominent critic of authoritarianism, vehemently denounced the Bolshevik's embrace of violence and suppression. Berkman believed that terror contradicted the ideals of social justice and human liberation that the revolution should have championed, viewing it as a betrayal of the revolution's original principles and a step toward a new form of tyranny.
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