12. establishment of bolshevik gov Flashcards
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: when did lenin return to Russia from Switzerland
3 april 1917
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was lenin helped by germans
they expected him to seize power and make peace
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: where were april theses published
Pravda`
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did april theses demand
- power transferred to soviets
- war brought to an immediate end
- all land taken over by state and reallocated to peasants by local soviets
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what have april theses been summed up as
demand for peace bread and land
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did ‘all power to soviets mean’
lenin stressed a policy of non cooperation with PG
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin want all power to soviets
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
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did some Bolsheviks fear
that lenin had grown out of touch and that his radical proposals would do more harm than good
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what allegations were there about lenin
that he was in the pay of the germans
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did the mensheviks fear about lenin
that he would undermine what they had been doing and by stirring up discontent would provoke a right wing reaction
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did some think lenins call to oppose PG was unrealistic
Bolsheviks had only 26000 members and were still in minority among socialists
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were Bolsheviks divided amongst themselves
over whether to cooperate with PG or not
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin claim credit for in his speeches that gradually built up support for him
claimed credit for what was already happening, not least peasants seizure of land
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how had lenin won over majority of central committee of Bolshevik party by end of april
by sheer force of personality
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did winning wider support require more persistence
when first all Russian congress of sovviets met in Petrograd on 3 june it passed a cote of confidence In PG
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin win a key adherence at beginning of july
when Trotsky decided to throw his full weight behind Bolshevik cause
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: kerenskys determination to do what played into Bolshevik hands
continue the war
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what threatened to undermine some of Bolsheviks good work
frustrations and disappointments of workers, soldiers and sailors that boiled over in unctontolled rioting in Petrograd during july days
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were warrants for the arrest of Bolsheviks issued
blamed for stirring up troubles in july days
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how did soviet newspaper Izvestia denounce role of Bolsheviks over july days
claimed lenin was working in pay of germans and against russias best interests
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what happened to Bolshevik propaganda and Pravda following july days
propaganda burned and Pravda offices closed
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenins reputation fall after july days
for fleeing rather than leading
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did it seem Bolshevik moment had passed on 8 july
Kerensky replaced prince Lvov as PM
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was Bolsheviks cause saved by kornilov affair
Bolsheviks released from gaols and soldiers, sailors and workers again took to streets
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Bolsheviks organise when given arms by PG during kornilov affair
seized opportunity to organise bands of workers commanded by their red guards
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were Bolsheviks able to bask in reputation of after Kornilov affair
being the only group to have opposed kornilov consistently
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were Bolsheviks elected in increasing numbers to
soviets throughout urban Moscow and in duma elections in moscow
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Bolshevik support increase by between june and december
164%
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: Bolshevik membership feb-oct
feb- 23000
oct- 200000
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what placed them in a powerful position by September
Bolsheviks won a majority in elections were held to Petrograd soviet and had control of Moscow soviet
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did trosky become on 21 sept
chairman of Petrograd soviet
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what were inadequacies of Bolsheviks despite their increasing support
not a tightly organised or disciplined group
tended to go along with events rather than initiate change
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin bombard control committee of bol party with from mid September
demands to stage a revolution and seize power
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: who particularly opposed lenins desire to stage rev in central committee
Kamenev and zinoviev
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did central committee urge restraint against bol seizure of power
Russia not yet economically ready for rev
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin write 12 sept
‘history will not forgive us if we do not assume power now’
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did committee vote against 15 sept
a coup
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Zinoviev and Kamenev argue bol rev shouldn’t occur before
results of constituent assembly known
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Trotsky suggest they should work through
Petrograd soviet and wait for congress of soviets which was due to be convened on 26 oct
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did Trotsky believe they could win at congress of soviets
support of all socialist parties for soviet gov without having to resort to violence
The Bolshevik seizure of power: why did Lenin secretly return to Petrograd 7 October
To attend a meeting of central committee to try and win them over in person to policy of taking power immediately
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what excuse did soviet have to set up military revolutionary committee
Kerensky sent some of more radical army units out of capital
Soviet claimed kerensky was abandoning capital to allow it to fall to Germans
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did MRCs appoint
Commissars to military units to issue orders and organise weapons supplies
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what was MRCs declared purpose
Toncontrol troop movements
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what was MRCs existence justified by
Fears that gov ministers might support a right wing coup
The Bolshevik seizure of power: when did Lenin finally succeed in convincing central committee that an armed rising is the order of the day
10 October
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did zinoviev and Kamenev do in response to plans for rev
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’
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did kerensky try and do to limit Bolshevik power
- attempted to close 2 bolshevik newspapers and restrict MRCs power
- ordered bridges linking WC areas to centre of Petrograd to be raised
The Bolshevik seizure of power: what did Bolshevik propagandist suggest kerenskys actions were a betrayal of
Soviet and an abandon enemy of principles of feb revolution
