Developments between the revolutions Flashcards
When did Lenin return to Russia?
What did he publish in those next few weeks?
3rd April
April Thesis
When did Trotsky join the Bolsheviks?
2nd July
When were Bolshevik leaders incl Trotsky arrested?
What was Lenin’s response?
3-7th July
Lenin fled to Finland
When was Trotsky made head of the Petrograd Soviet
September 1917
When did Lenin attend a Bolshevik Central Committee meeting and call for a Bolshevik led revolution?
10th October
When was the military revolutionary committee set up and under whom?
16th October
Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky
Name the number of members in the Bolshevik party in feb/march 1917?
23,000
How many representatives in the Soviet of 1500 were Bolshevik in March 1917
40 representatives
Who were the 1st Bolsheviks to reach Petrograd after the Feb revolution?
What did they take control of and what did they believe?
Lev Kamenev and Stalin took control of the Party newspaper, Pravda.
They supported the PG, the continuation of the war and Soviet leadership.
Who did Lenin enlist the help of to return to Russia?
Who did he travel with / on what/ and through where?
German help
31 comrades on a sealed train with one carridge from Switzerland through Germany,neurtal Sweden then Finland to Petrograd.
How long has Lenin been in exile?
17 years - bar 6 months from 1905-1906
When did Lenin write his ‘letters from afar’?
What did he state?
1-26th March
Party job to lead a 2nd revolution
What were the April Thesis demands?
What 3 words can this be summed up as?
No support for PG
War immediately ended.
Power transferred to the Soviet
All land allocated to peasants
PEACE LAND BREAD
What were the opposition faced by Lenin in his party?
Some feared Lenin had grown out of touch during exile with his radical proposition.
Allegation of Lenin being in the pay of the Germans
Lenin was seen as unrealistic
Describe how Lenin overcame the opposition to a 2nd revolution
Skills of persuasion
threats of resignation
compromise by abandoning his call for immediate overthrow of the PG
What event did Lenin take credit for in April 1917?
What did it lead to in the party?
Anti-war demonstration in Petrograd after Milyukov announced the war would continue until victory
later he resigned
Majority support of the CC by force of personality
When the 1st All russian congress of Soviets met on June 3 what did they pass a vote of confidence on?
How many were for and against?
Confidence in the Provisional Government
543 to 126
When were the July Days?
3-5 July
Describe the July Days
Who was demonstrating?
Kronstadt naval base with Bolshevik slogans
B failed attempt to make it peaceful when shots were fired at the demonstors
Describe the July Days
Who was demonstrating?
Why?
20,000 Kronstadt naval base with Bolshevik slogans , looted, attacked property
B failed attempt to make it peaceful when shots were fired at the demonstors
closure of 586 factories loss of 100,000 jobs
How were the Bolsheviks affected by the July days?
Pravada offices closed
lenin and Stalin fled (Lenin was on holiday returned then fled)
Trotsky and Kamenev imprisoned
Izvestia newspaper denounced Lenin as working for Germany
When was the Kornilov Coup?
August 1917
By October 1917 how much were prices above pre-war level?
c.755 %
What laws were passed against factory workers in August?
Right for factory owners to dismiss strikers and meeting of factory soviet in working hours were forbidden
In the Kornilov Coup
who led it
how many regiments were sent to march on where?
How did Krensky react?
Kornilov coup
6 regiments to petrograd
Krensky panicked and asked them to stop when then didn’t released Bolsheviks + gave workers weapons to stop them
Name the Bolshevik membership in the beginning of the October?
200,000
How many Bolshevik newspapers were published in October?
41
How many were in the Red Guard in October?
100,000
What did Kerensky do on Oct 5
send radical army unit out of Petrograd to prepare for front line service
What resolution did the Soviet adopt after Krensky mobilized troops?
When? Why?
9th of October
Claims of Krensky abandoning capital to the Germans
Created own military revolution centre, written by Trotsky
Who in the party was strongly against a 2nd revolution?
what did they do to prevent Lenin’s messages being read?
Kamenev and Zinoviev
Burnt some of Lenin’s letters
When did Lenin slip back into Russia in October?
October 10th
What was the vote for and against Lenin’s revolution?
10 to 2
Describe Trotsky’s final preparations for the revolutions
sent speakers in factories to rally support
66 member military revolution committee - 48 Bolshevik
Commissars sent to garrison units- 15/18 declare allegiance to Soviet
How many were in the Military Revolutionary Committee?
200,000 Red Guard
60,000 Baltic Soldiers
150,000 Petrograd Garrison soldiers
How many died and were wounded in the June offensive?
40k died
20k wounded
