2.1.1 Bolshevik Consolidation of Power

Question 1

Q: characterisation of Bolshevik party leadership system

Answer 1

‘centralised, ideocratic dictatorship of a single party’

Robert Service

Question 2

Areas the Bols changed

Answer 2

Political, Social, Nationalities, Economic, Foreign Policy

Question 3

What was the USSR supposed to be? according to Stalin

Answer 3

a decisive step towards… a World Soviet Socialist Republic

Stalin

Question 4

USSR blend of which regions?

Answer 4

Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Transcaucasia

Question 5

Level of independence of USSR regions?

Answer 5

Technically independent, but Petrograd soviet (in Moscow) was most powerful = Russian interests at heart

Question 6

when was ussr created

Answer 6

december 1922

Question 7

‘Political’ main points

Answer 7

• dictatorship of bolsheviks, not proletariat
  ^’On Party Unity’ 1921 - suppress factionalism + opposition
• power structures during civil war continue - CHEKA, censorship

Question 8

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Answer 8

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Question 9

Cultural Transformation key points

Answer 9

• bolshevism ersatz religion –> decline of former religion, Rus Orthodox church
• education

Question 10

Social transformation key points

Answer 10

• repression of ordinary people
• propaganda
• laws: marriage, abortion, divorce

Question 11

USSR formation key points

Answer 11

• they made the USSR, indigenisation programs