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Lenin Flashcards

1
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Lenin returns

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April theses
Bread peace land
Germany let him- cause trouble
All power to soviet

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2
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July days

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1917
Kerensky
Faked info against Lenin
K becomes pm

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3
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Kornilov affair

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Kerensky appointed Kornilov as head of army
Kornilov wanted own gov
Cossack troops ordered to match on Petrograd
Scared kerensky
Armed red guard
Railway workers stopped them- never arrived

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4
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Bolshevik take over

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Saviours of Petrograd
Kerensky hated
Smolny institute 
7th Nov no secret
Lenin in Finland says seize power
Bridges, telegraph office, stations, power station
Little resistance
K left city helped by us
Storm winter palace
Aurora
9pm
Women's death battalion
No resistance
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5
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Issues w prov gov

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War
Land
Dual power

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6
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Bolshevik power

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Land to peasants
Food go to cities
Cheka
Constituent assembly 
Treaty of Brest litovsk
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7
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Treaty of Brest litovsk

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March 1918

V harsh
Ukraine
1/6 of pop
74% of iron ore and coal

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8
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Bolshevik party rename

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Communists

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9
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Civil war

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Geography
Aims
Leadership
Unity
Foreign intervention
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10
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Trotsky

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Train!!!

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11
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Tsar death

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Killed in a room

1918

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12
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War communism

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Control of industry
No trade unions
Strict discipline on workers

Cheka on peasants
Grain requisitioning

Terror
Cheka
Red terror

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13
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War communism results

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1913- 80m tonnes of grain
1921- 37.6m

Coal
1913- 29 m tonnes
1921- 9m tonnes

Economy in ruins
Production fallen
Burglary
Agricultural collapse

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14
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Opposition to lenin’s policies

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Workers opposition
Higher wages
No mass arrests
More food
Workers control of industry
Kronstadt naval base
March 1921
Uprising
20,000 killed
Sailors executed and sent to labour camps
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15
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NEP main features

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Grain requisitioning stopped
Peasants have fixed amount to give to gov per year
Any surplus sold on open market

Traders buy and sell goods

Smaller factories returned to former owners

Larger industries under state control

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16
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NEP what?

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New economic policy

1921

17
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NEP Included

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Electrification

Foreign trade

Not kulaks or nepmen

18
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Success of NEP and failures

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Till 1928
More prosperous Russia
Prices too high for peasants
Unwilling to sell grain for money
Unemployment still a problem
Angry w nepmen
Massive investment needed to make Russia less backward
19
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NEP figures

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37.6 m tonnes 1921
73.3 m 1928
Grain

9 m tonnes 1921
35 m tonnes 1928
Coal

20
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Communist changes for Russia

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Equality of women
Crèches, marriage and divorce easy, abortion on demand, sexual relations 
Religion- banned
Education- increased, extended 
Art- experimentation
21
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Lenin death

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Jan 1924

Strokes
Brain shrunk
Thousands lined street

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