Bolsheviks taking power - interpretations Flashcards
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Lynch - Views on early stages of Bolshevik rule
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Bolsheviks had been focused on revolution > gave little thought to how things would be organised
2
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Trotsky - Challenges facing the Bolsheviks/their reaction to them
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“I shall order a few revolutionary decrees to the people, then shut up shop”
3
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Service - Early decrees of the Bolsheviks
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“They [early decrees] were designed to inspire, to excite and to instigate.”
4
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Pipes - Early decrees of the Bolsheviks
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“The system of legislation.. marked a reversion to the autocratic practices of Tsarist Russia”
“They simply wiped out the eleven intervening years of constitutionalism”
