Bolshevik Decrees

Question 1

What is the Worker’s decree?

Answer 1

Established a maximum of an 8 hour day

Question 2

What was the press decree?

Answer 2

Banned all opposition press

Question 3

Decree on Land

Answer 3

Abolished private ownership of land and legitimised peasant seizures without compensation to landlords (this reduced peasant support for the SRs and provided breathing space for the consolidation of Bolshevik rule)

Question 4

Judicial Decree

Answer 4

Established a new legal system of elected people’s courts

Question 5

Decree to establish the ‘All Russian Commission for the Suppression of Counter - Revolution, Sabotage and speculation’

Answer 5

Created the secret police force known as the Cheka, it’s aim was to root out opposition

Question 6

Military decree

Answer 6

removed class ranks, saluting and military decorations from the army and placed the army under the control of soldiers soviets, which would elect officers

Question 7

What was the veshenka?

Answer 7

To establish control and supervise economic development

Question 8

Social insurance decree

Answer 8

Provided old age, health and unemployment benefits

Question 9

Decree on peace

Answer 9

Promised to end the war ‘without annexation and indemnities’

Question 10

Rights of the people of Russia decree

Answer 10

Abolished titles and class ranks. Everyone had to be addressed as a ‘citizen’ or ‘grazhdanin’ and party members as ‘tovarishch’ or ‘comrade’