Chp5.1The establishment of one-party control Flashcards
When the Bolsheviks came to power, who did they claim they were acting in the interests of?
The proletariat
What did the Bolsheviks encourage the people of Russia to think?
that the October/November revolution was a popular uprising
What 3 things did Lenin believe belonged to an old class-ridden world?
- Idea of competing for votes
- allowing different views to exist
- for policy to emerge through discussion and argument
What did Lenin establish as a government?
“dictatorship of the proletariat”
What did Marxist argue that ‘revolutionary morality’ justified?
strong action
Why had Lenin previously attacked Kerensky?
for postponing elections for a Constituent Assembly
How many votes were cast in the Constituent Assembly election?
41 million
What % of the votes did the Bolsheviks secure in the election for the Constituent Assembly?
24%
What % of the votes did the Social Revolutionaries secure in the election for the Constituent Assembly
53%
Why was the elections of the Constituent Assembly not the best time to have them?
as those who voted in areas away from Moscow and Petrograd had little idea what was really happening in the capital, knowing little about the Bolsheviks
After the obvious popularity of the Social Revolutionaries what did Lenin declare?
“we must not be deceived by the election figures. Elections prove nothing”
By the time the Assembly met in January 1918, which group had been outlawed?
the Kadets
By the time the Assembly met in January 1918 why had the Kadets been outlawed?
for expressing approval for Alexei Kaledin, a Cossack general who had begun a counter-revolutionary rebellion in the Don region
Who was the Cossack general who begun a counter-revolutionary rebellion in the Don region who the Kadets had expressly approved ?
Alexei Kaledin
Who chose Chernov to chair the meeting in the Assembly in January 1918 against the wishes of the Bolsheviks who proposed the meeting be chaired by a left-wing SR?
the right wing SR’s who had a majority
