First Six Months Flashcards
1
Q
Sovnarkom formed:
A
27 October 1917
2
Q
Sovnarkom was:
A
The Council of People’s Commissars; Russia’s new government
3
Q
Lenin on the first six months:
A
The Early months of Sovnarkom rule was “the triumphal march of Soviet power”
4
Q
Bolsheviks finally gain unrestricted use of money from the State bank on…
A
20 November 1917
5
Q
Trotsky on Bolsheviks not knowing how to run government:
A
“I shall issue a few revolutionary decrees, then shut up shop”
6
Q
Bolshevik land decree passed:
A
27 October 1917
7
Q
Lenin on knew decrees:
A
“We will turn Russia upside down”
8
Q
Sovnarkom released …
A
116 decrees on various topics over the coming months
9
Q
Land Decree allowed peasants:
A
To seize land from the gentry; “Land shall be confiscated without compensation and become the property of the whole of the people”
