Historiography Y12 FP2 Flashcards
What did Acton say about the Bolshevik government?
“No Russian government had ever been more responsive to pressure from below or less able to impose its will upon society.”
What did Figes say about the Cheka?
“The ingenuity of the Cheka’s torture methods was matched only by the Spanish inquisition.”
What did Lenin say about justice in Russia?
“Better to arrest 100 civillians than let one guilty person go free.”
What was Lenin’s reaction to the suggestion of dulling down the terror?
“Nonsense, how can you make revolution without firing squads.”
What did David Lloyd George say about Russia?
“Russia was a jungle in which no-one could say what was a few yards in front of him.”
What did Churchill say about intervention in Russia?
“To be dragged further into the RUssian chaos would be fatal.”
What did Lenin say about the Kulaks?
“The people will see, tremble, know, shout : The Bolsheviks are strangling and will strangle the blood-sucker Kulals!”
In an order issued to the Red Army during the Civil War, what did Trotsky threaten?
“I give warning that if any unit retreats without orders, the first to be shot down will be the commissary of the unit, and next the commander… cowards, dastards and traitors will not escape the bullet.”
What did Robert Service say about Trotsky’s presence in the Civil War?
“Ruthless”
“Revolutionary Zeal.”
What did Smith say about the Krondschat sailors?
“The most reliable defenders” of the revolution.
In a letter to Denikin, what did Wrangel describe as happening in the White Army?
“There has been an outbreak of debauchery, gambling and wild orgies.”
What did Service say about Trotsky in his book ‘A history of Twentieth-Century Russia.” ?
“Organisational capacity and ruthlessness as he transformed the Red Army into a fighting force.”
“He had his own railway carriage equipped with his own map room and printing press.”
How did the Western Commentator, George Kennan, describe foreign intervention in the Civil War?
“The interventions, though small, poisoned relations between Soviet Russia and the West in the longer term.”
According to Orlando Figes, how much of the population left the industrial cities in the north between 1918 and 1920 searching for food?
Half of the population.
How does Orlando Figes describe the Kulaks?
As the “phantom class of capitalist peasants invented by the Bolsheviks.”
