Key features of Lenin's state that became key features of Stalin's state

Question 1

List them briefly

Answer 1

• All rival socialist parties destroyed
• Censorship became more efficient
• Cheka renamed GPU
• Peasants revolts were dealt with harshly
• Attack on the church
• Central planning was a key feature

Question 2

All rival socialist parties destroyed

Answer 2

1922 Show Trials- SRs imprisoned already were now put on trial and accused of plotting to kill Lenin
- 34 found guilty with 11 being executed

Question 3

Censorship became more efficient

Answer 3

1922 many Russian writers and scholars were deported plus pre-publication censorship was introduced.
(books, poems etc. had to be submitted to Glavlit before publication)

Question 4

Cheka

Answer 4

Renamed GPU in 1922.

During the NEP, the secret police took on an important role, harassing Nepmen and corrective labour camps were built

Question 5

Peasants revolts were dealt with harshly

Answer 5

1920-21 in the Tambov region a 70,000 man peasant army was formed in response to the requisitioning squads.
100,000 Red Army soldiers brutally suppressed the revolt.

Question 6

Attack on the church which was seen as a rival power

Answer 6

At the start of the NEP the Church enjoyed a revival bit in 1921 the Union of the Militant Godless was set up. Its aim sign to challenge the Church.

In 1922 they set out to strip churches of precious items to help the famine victims. Violent clashes occurred when local people and priests tried to save their churches.

Leaders of the Russian orthodox church were given death penalties and thousands of priests were imprisoned.

Question 7

Central planning

Answer 7

This was a key feature.
Happened as a consequence of the civil war when nationalisation of industry and state control (e.g. of the peasants) could be justified as the fulfilment of socialist principles.