Critics Flashcards
Lenin’s death
1924
How many of the 71 central committee members were still alive in 1939
16
When was the Bolshevik revolution
October 1917
What replaced the provisional government in October 1917 and where
Sovnarkon (at the congress of Soviets meeting in Petrograd)
Who was the first head of the Sovnarkom ? What did he do ?
Lenin
Land, peace and workers degrees (all popular)
What did the land decree do ?
Gave the peasants the right to seize land from the nobility and the church
What did the peace decree do?
Committed the new government to withdrawing from WWI and seeking peace
What did the workers’ decree do ?
Established an eight hour maximum working day and minimum wage
Effect of the civil war on the nature of the communist government?
Radical change
Led to emergence of an authoritarian centralised and bureaucratic regime
Groups in the civil war
Whites (liberals, tsarists and those wanting military dictatorship)
Reds (communists)
Greens (left socialist revolutionaries)
Events leading up to the 1921 Party congress and what did it address
Addressed: Famine caused by war communism and the backlash caused by Red Terror
- 1920 Tambov rebellion (rebel force of 50,000 by January 1921)
- strikes (red army opened fire in Petrograd)
- Kronstadt naval base mutiny
Mensheviks arrested in the first 3 months of 1921
5,000
Party membership end of 1917
300,000
Party membership end of 1921
730,000
Russia was **% of land area and **% of population
~90
~72
Cheka body count 1917-23
200,009
Number of Cheka members by 1921
250,009
Under Lenin / party purged
1/3
As General Secretary how many personal files did Stalin have access to
Over 26,000
Lenin enrolment 1923-1925
500,000 workers recruited
By 1935 **% of party removed from posts
22%
Red Army purges date and stats
1937-38 Shot/imprisoned; ~ 3/5 marshals ~ 14/16 commanders ~ 35,000 officers
Secret police purge
1936
3,000 personnel purged
Party membership
~ 1953
~ 1980
~ 6.9m
~ 17m
Stalin’s last party congress; % of central committee retained (vs Brezhnev)
Stalin 56%
Brezhnev 79%
1984: how many politburo members aged 70+
7/11
