During the consolidation stage of totalitarian development, what do revolutionary leaders attempt to do?

a) Reach a consensus with rival factions and form a broad-based coalition.

b) Begin the immediate transformation of society.

c) Eliminate real or imagined rivals for power and place loyal associates in key posts.

d) Calm the public by ending the violence that marked the revolutionary stage.

e) Reinterpret the past and attribute any failures to a clearly identifiable enemy.