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
