The brutality under the Bolsheviks was on a different scale than what occurred under the Tsar. According to the Gulag Archipelago, during the 1905-07 anti-socia

The brutality under the Bolsheviks was on a different scale than what occurred under the Tsar. According to the Gulag Archipelago, during the 1905-07 anti-socialist purges, fewer people were killed in one year than were killed in single days in the mass executions that took place in the USSR in 1937-38. Another source on the comparative brutality of the CHEKA: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ohiou1398772391 https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ohiou13987... >>As great as the Okhrana’s reputation may have inflated to, however, its repressiveness never equaled that of the Cheka or later apparatuses. Okhrana agents, for example, did not determine or carry out execution orders, nor did they engage in systematic torture; in contrast, the Cheka’s brutality is often exemplified in s actions during the ‘Red Terror’, during which five hundred perceived enemies were executed in just one day.18 The brutality of the Bolsheviks mirrored exactly the inhumanity of the Marxist ideology which animated them. Marxism was utterly hostile to propertied classes. The crude narrative generalized huge populations of people as victimizers, based on a single superficial dimension - their possession of property, and condemned them all to any punishment the proletariat deemed fit. The class warfare ideology of Marxism was premised on highly prejudicial assumptions about wealthy classes that rationalized extreme class-based bigotry. The dehumanization and bigotry enabled a level of inhumanity/brutality that didn't occur under the more traditional/humanistic Czarist state.