lenin Government Flashcards
when was the dual authority?
summer 1917 - Provisional Gov & Soviets
when was the Kronstadt uprising crushed?
1921 - by Red Army and CHEKA
when did the Tsar abdicate?
February 1917
when did Lenin extend the power of the Politburo?
1919 - politburo now made decisions instead of Sovnarkom
when was it decided the politburo would be a collective leadership?
1924
when was the constituent assembly dissolved?
Jan 1918
when was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) formed and who controlled it?
1922 - Lenin and the Politburo
when was the Red terror?
1918-20
what did Lenin ban within the party and when?
Factionalism - 1921
when was the October revolution?
1917
what were some reasons for the February revolution?
- rising taxes, increasing debts and decreasing living standards
- educated classes were aware Russia was behind socially and politically
- Tsar broke his promises
- increasing amount of young revolutionaries
- tsar was weak willed
what were some reasons for the White’s failure in the Civil War?
- they were ‘ignorant and incompetent’
- funding from the British stopped
- failure to secure support from national groups, foreign power and peasants
why did the British stop funding the Whites?
they would rather see “Russia Bolshevik than Britain bankrupt”
what decree gave the Reds peasant support?
the Land decree
where did Kolchak attempt an attack on Reds and what was the result?
Ufa 1919 - he was executed in Feb 1920
when was Denikin forced out of Russia?
March 1920
how big was the Red Army in 1919
1,600,000
how many Tsarist officers did the Bolsheviks recruit?
75,000
how many officers did the Bolsheviks train from 1918-20?
38,000
what was the ratio of Whites to Reds?
656,000 : 5 million
how much had Bolshevik party number grown through the war?
from 150,000 to 600,000
what is an example of a Red commander?
Tukhachevsky - outfought the whites in Summer 1919
what were Lenin’s famous slogans?
“Peace, Bread, Land” & “All power to the Soviets”
what did Lenin issue in 1917 and 1918?
Decrees e.g:
- decree on Land
- decree on Peace
- decree on Workers Control
- decree concerning the separation of Church and State
when was the April Thesis issued?
17 April 1917 - a set of demands/ goals for the Bolsheviks
when was the Treaty of Brest Litovsk?
in 1918 the Bolsheviks signed a treaty with the germans ending Russias involvement in WW1. Russia had to surrender tracts of land and pay 3 billion roubles in reparations
how much did Russia lose in the Treaty of Brest Litovsk?
1 million square miles of land
when was Lenin in power?
1917-1924
why did Lenin dissolve the constituent assembly?
the Bolsheviks only gained a quarter of the votes and the proposal for the Assembly’s power to be limited was denied it was dissolved. this lead to the red guard killing and wounding 100 demonstrators
