I love Proles of the Round Table | Ep 37: Communist Democracy, let's play it!
https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-c3gwq-6cf0b3f
Of all the experiments in the early years of the October Revolution, from Anarchist communities, to tenuous DSA style attempts to have reconciliation with Bourgeois reactionary forces, only the Bolsheviks Democratic Centralism proved strong enough and flexible enough to survive the Civil War and establish Soviet Democracy forming the Soviet Union.
Did the Bolsheviks do everything perfect? No, of course not. But considering everything they were up against, despite the Reactionary forces of Imperialism that united against the Bolsheviks, it's a testament to the strength and dynamism of Marxism-Leninism that the Bolsheviks won the war and United the vast Soviet Union under one Socialist banner.
I don't care what your tendency is, the accomplishments of the Bolsheviks in the early years after the October Revolution is astounding, and could not have been accomplished without the backing of the vast masses of the Soviet peoples. This was NOT a Revolution from Above. This was true Proletarian unity in an alliance with the peasants who'd endured the worst of the Tsrist years. The Bolsheviks could not have won through totalitarianism as the Bourgeoisie would like you to believe. Only millions of people rising up in glorious revolt could ever have given the Bolsheviks the strength and numbers they needed to win the Civil War and come out on top to form the CCCP.