Lenin Flashcards
Who stormed the winter palace
The bolsheviks with armed soldiers and workers
Before the revolution what did they seize
Railways
Arsenal
Power stations
Telephones
Banks
How many troops mutinied
80 000
Why couldn’t police control uprising
Widespread riots and mutnies
When was the winter palace seized
26 October 1917
What did Trotsky contribute to oct revolutions
Planned ad carried out siege
revolution
after the October revolution what was the next big event
Constituent assembly in 1918
What percent of the votes did the bolsheviks get in constituent assembly versus what groups
25%
Vs Social revolutionaries who got peasant vote
What happened to the constituent assembly
Shut own by bolsheviks after 1 day and the communists governed Russia
What did Lenin believe was necessary to protect regime from counter revolutionaries
Dictatorship where all decision were centralized
What other measures did Lenin put in place o secure communist rule
Banning newspapers( only have Pravda)
Cheka- secret police
Red Terror - executions- imprisonment of landlords and priest- conducted by Cheka)
What were the decrees implemented
-Land- peasants seized land
-Nationalization of banks
-Equality for women
- Church land and wealth confiscated- NO RELIGION
-Workers control industry
-Equal wages and salaries
-No titles
What was the Brest Litovsk Treaty
Sacrifices must be made to ensure communism in Russia- Lenin
Peace treaty out of the war were Russia lost 1/3 people, 1/3 farm land, 1/4 land, 1/2 industry
Why Civil war
People thought democracy would come
Old army officers unhappy with withdrawal from WW1
Unpopular economic policies
- land confiscation without compensation
-labor conscription
Opponents in civil war
Internal (white army)
- Tsarists
-Land owners
-army officers
-middle class
External
-Britain
-France
-USA
-Japan
Why did the communists win
Cruelty of white commanders made them lose peasant support
White army disorganized(unable to work as one unit)
Conscription to gain troops
Trotsky good leader
War Communism
What was war communism
Nationalization of industry
Grain requisition
Central control
Strict sate control- Cheka
Labor discipline -conscription
War Communism- industry
- state ownership of factories
- workers where given food Rations( Russia became poor as money devalued)
-workers punished for striking
-workers control factories - private enterprise banned- NEPMEN
-conscription of workers - no import
War communism- Agriculture
- Grain Requisition - Result in reduced production due to peasant rebellion and them hiding surplus
- Kulaks Scapegoated for hoarding grain
- nothing to plant due to Requisition
-1921 drought- 5 mil die from starvation
-cannibalism among survivors
- 5 mil die from starvation
Kronstadt mutiny-how many soldiers sent t stop it and where
20 000 o soldiers sent at Kronstadt Naval Base
- sailors who survived were executed
After Kronstadt Mutiny Lenin realised change must be made- what did he implement?
New Economic Policy
Why did Lenin implement the NEP
Need to save revolution by compromising with free enterprise
NEP agriculture
Gain requisition changed to Grain tax
Peasants sell surplus on free market
Output increased
Land still state owned
NEP industry
State still own mines, banks and control foreign Trade
NEPMEN
-private enterprise allowed for companies employing less then 20 workers
- heavily taxed
Larger industry due to greater freedom- less centralised control
