Key Dates, Quotes & Historians Flashcards
When was the assault on the Winter Palace?
25th-26th October 1917
When was the October Revolution?
24th-27th October 1917
How many members did the Bolsheviks have in 1917?
24,000
What is state capitalism?
Lenin’s term for the system which operated during the first year of the Bolshevik’s rule, whereby the Bolsheviks maintained the main pre-revolutionary economic structures
Decree on Land
Private ownership of land was abolished and all land was confiscated without compensation. The decree gave permission to the peasant uprisings.
Decree on Workers Control
Authorised the workers’ uprisings and takeovers of factories, but instructed to keep them in the “strictest order and discipline”
What was the Cheka and who led it?
The government’s political police force, lead by ‘Iron’ Felix Dzerzhinsky
When were elections to the Constitutent Assembly held?
12th November 1917 (44 million voted)
What did War Communism consist of?
Militarisation of the workplace, nationalisation of industry, abolition of money, free state run services and grain requisitioning
What was the Red Terror?
A two year period which began in 1918, characterised by violence and extra-legal killing by the Cheka, and triggered by the assassination attempt on Lenin (30th August 1918)
What was the Decree on Red Terror?
It allowed the Cheka to kill anyone and allowed the creation of concentration camps (5th September 1918)
Lynch: The Kronstadt Revolt was…
“…the most serious threat to Bolshevik control since the October Revolution.”
When did the sailors rally at Kronstadt?
1st March 1921
When was the Kronstadt Revolt?
7th-17th March 1921
How many sailors were killed in the Kronstadt Revolt?
5000
