Explain this quote: "But Lenin was not playing by democratic rules. Slowly but surely, the shape of a new police state, with him at the helm, emerged.”

The quote is explaining the fact that Lenin did not believed in democracy because he considered democracy to be a burgeois system that benefited the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.

This is why he supported the idea of a worker's party domianted government, which would be led by him, and was the Bolsheviks Party of Russia. The Party would impose a police state that killed and made disappear many dissenters, political opponents, and wealthy industrailists and farmers.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

no options provided, here,but the answer to this question is often: a historian cites a japanese newspaper article published a year after the end of world war ii in order to draw conclusions about the effect of the war on the japanese economy.

clearly from the answer, the historian alludes to historical sources,and records to aid in analyzing and drawing conclusion on the effect of the war on the economy of japan.