End of Lenin

Question 1

August 1918

Answer 1

an attempt on Lenin’s life led to a greater attack on the bourgeoisie. Thousands rounded up by the Cheka and torture used to gain confessions. Hardly any group went untouched

Question 2

September 1918

Answer 2

Sovnarkom gave the Cheka the authority to arrest/destroy families of any suspect.

Sverdlov declared this should be a, ‘merciless mass Terror against all opponents of the revolution’

Question 3

Political opponents

Answer 3

Remaining SRs and Mensheviks were branded traitors

500 were shot in Petrograd alone

Question 4

Public opponents

Answer 4

The Terror escalated as local Cheka agents took matters into their own hands
- people accused because of past grudges

• merchant traders
• black marketeers
• hoarders
• Nepmen
• professors
• prostitutes
• Kulaks
  They all suffered and their family and friends, and sometime whole villages

Question 5

Tsar

Answer 5

July 1918 Tsar and his family were killed

Question 6

Religious opponents

Answer 6

Priests, Jews, Catholics suffered to a lesser extent but still around 8,000 priests were executed in 1921.
Muslims also persecuted.

Question 7

How many people were shot from 1918-1921

Answer 7

from 1/2 million to 1 million

Question 8

If they weren’t shot what happened

Answer 8

Others were tortured, sent to labour camps where they would die

Question 9

Party members

Answer 9

1921 ban on factions mean even Party members had to accept the Party line.

Question 10

How did the civil war impact

Answer 10

• highly centralised Party
• Authoritarian
• Opposition virtually impossible