12. establishment of bolshevik gov Flashcards

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: when did lenin return to Russia from Switzerland

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3 april 1917

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was lenin helped by germans

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they expected him to seize power and make peace

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: where were april theses published

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Pravda`

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did april theses demand

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  • power transferred to soviets
  • war brought to an immediate end
  • all land taken over by state and reallocated to peasants by local soviets
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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what have april theses been summed up as

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demand for peace bread and land

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did ‘all power to soviets mean’

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lenin stressed a policy of non cooperation with PG

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin want all power to soviets

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he argued that Russian middle class was too weak to carry through a full bourgeois revolution and that to allow the middle classes to continue in power was to hold inevitable proletarian revolution back

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did some Bolsheviks fear

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that lenin had grown out of touch and that his radical proposals would do more harm than good

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what allegations were there about lenin

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that he was in the pay of the germans

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did the mensheviks fear about lenin

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that he would undermine what they had been doing and by stirring up discontent would provoke a right wing reaction

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did some think lenins call to oppose PG was unrealistic

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Bolsheviks had only 26000 members and were still in minority among socialists

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were Bolsheviks divided amongst themselves

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over whether to cooperate with PG or not

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin claim credit for in his speeches that gradually built up support for him

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claimed credit for what was already happening, not least peasants seizure of land

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how had lenin won over majority of central committee of Bolshevik party by end of april

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by sheer force of personality

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did winning wider support require more persistence

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when first all Russian congress of sovviets met in Petrograd on 3 june it passed a cote of confidence In PG

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin win a key adherence at beginning of july

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when Trotsky decided to throw his full weight behind Bolshevik cause

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: kerenskys determination to do what played into Bolshevik hands

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continue the war

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what threatened to undermine some of Bolsheviks good work

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frustrations and disappointments of workers, soldiers and sailors that boiled over in unctontolled rioting in Petrograd during july days

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were warrants for the arrest of Bolsheviks issued

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blamed for stirring up troubles in july days

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how did soviet newspaper Izvestia denounce role of Bolsheviks over july days

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claimed lenin was working in pay of germans and against russias best interests

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what happened to Bolshevik propaganda and Pravda following july days

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propaganda burned and Pravda offices closed

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenins reputation fall after july days

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for fleeing rather than leading

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did it seem Bolshevik moment had passed on 8 july

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Kerensky replaced prince Lvov as PM

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was Bolsheviks cause saved by kornilov affair

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Bolsheviks released from gaols and soldiers, sailors and workers again took to streets

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Bolsheviks organise when given arms by PG during kornilov affair

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seized opportunity to organise bands of workers commanded by their red guards

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were Bolsheviks able to bask in reputation of after Kornilov affair

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being the only group to have opposed kornilov consistently

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were Bolsheviks elected in increasing numbers to

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soviets throughout urban Moscow and in duma elections in moscow

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Bolshevik support increase by between june and december

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164%

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: Bolshevik membership feb-oct

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feb- 23000

oct- 200000

30
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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what placed them in a powerful position by September

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Bolsheviks won a majority in elections were held to Petrograd soviet and had control of Moscow soviet

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did trosky become on 21 sept

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chairman of Petrograd soviet

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were inadequacies of Bolsheviks despite their increasing support

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not a tightly organised or disciplined group

tended to go along with events rather than initiate change

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin bombard control committee of bol party with from mid September

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demands to stage a revolution and seize power

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: who particularly opposed lenins desire to stage rev in central committee

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Kamenev and zinoviev

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did central committee urge restraint against bol seizure of power

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Russia not yet economically ready for rev

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin write 12 sept

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‘history will not forgive us if we do not assume power now’

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did committee vote against 15 sept

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a coup

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Zinoviev and Kamenev argue bol rev shouldn’t occur before

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results of constituent assembly known

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Trotsky suggest they should work through

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Petrograd soviet and wait for congress of soviets which was due to be convened on 26 oct

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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Trotsky believe they could win at congress of soviets

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support of all socialist parties for soviet gov without having to resort to violence

41
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The Bolshevik seizure of power: why did Lenin secretly return to Petrograd 7 October

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To attend a meeting of central committee to try and win them over in person to policy of taking power immediately

42
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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what excuse did soviet have to set up military revolutionary committee

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Kerensky sent some of more radical army units out of capital

Soviet claimed kerensky was abandoning capital to allow it to fall to Germans

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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did MRCs appoint

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Commissars to military units to issue orders and organise weapons supplies

44
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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what was MRCs declared purpose

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Toncontrol troop movements

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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what was MRCs existence justified by

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Fears that gov ministers might support a right wing coup

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The Bolshevik seizure of power: when did Lenin finally succeed in convincing central committee that an armed rising is the order of the day

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10 October

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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did zinoviev and Kamenev do in response to plans for rev

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Disagreed and published own views in a newspaper, declaring that ‘if we take power now and we are forced into a revolutionary war, the mass of soldiers will not support us’

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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did kerensky try and do to limit Bolshevik power

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  • attempted to close 2 bolshevik newspapers and restrict MRCs power
  • ordered bridges linking WC areas to centre of Petrograd to be raised
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The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did Bolshevik propagandist suggest kerenskys actions were a betrayal of

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Soviet and an abandon enemy of principles of feb revolution