Bolshevik Consolidation Of Power

Question 1

Establishment of one party control

Answer 1

Lenin removed the constituent assembly after the SRs won a majority of seats and justified it by saying that Russia was now governed by a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ meaning Lenin’s government would use state power to turn everything to benefit workers

Question 2

Terms of treaty of Brest- Litovsk

Answer 2

In exchange for peace they had to give up a huge area in the west of Russia meaning the loss of:
62 million people
2 million square metres of land, responsible for 1/3 of russias agricultural production
Quarter of russias railway lines
Three quarters of Russias iron and coal supplies
3 billion roubles in reparations

Question 3

Consolidation of the one party state

Answer 3

March 1918 capital moved to Moscow
Trotsky made head of new red army
Left wing SRs attempted to seize power in Moscow but crushed
Followed by the imposition of the red terror by the newly formed secret police