Chapter 5 - Consolidation of communist dictatorship

Question 1

How many votes where there for the election under the Bolsheviks?

Answer 1

41 million votes

Question 2

When were all political parties banned?

Answer 2

1921

Question 3

When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed and what did it mean?

Answer 3

. Signed 1918

. Russia stopped fighting in WW1 - made treaty with Germany

Question 4

What did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk mean for Russia in terms of its land?

Answer 4

Russia lost many countries such as Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine

Question 5

What did loosing land and signing the treaty mean for Russia?

Answer 5

. 1/6 Russia’s population was lost, 2 million sqr km of land and 1/3 Russia’s agricultural produce

. 26% of railway lines lost, 74% of its iron and core supplies

. Russia had to pay reparations worth 3 million roubles to Germany

Question 6

When was the Red Army formed?

Answer 6

1918

Question 7

Where did the capital of Russia move to?

Answer 7

Petrograd to Moscow 1918

Question 8

What happened to religion in Russia?

Answer 8

. Started to become secular, seeing many churches and land given to the state

. The clergy were disenfranchised and some priests drafted into the Red Army

Question 9

What did the 1918 Constitution mean?

Answer 9

Russia started to become a socialist society

Question 10

Who was given the vote in Russia?

Answer 10

. Working class

. Exploiting classes such as the bourgeoisie, clergy and tsarist officials were disenfranchised