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1
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When did Lenin extend the power of the politburo making them responsible for all political decisions ?

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1919

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When did Lenin introduce dual authority and who was it between?

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1917
Provisional gov and soviets
Was to test the legitimacy of the provisional gov but they were far less populist than bolsheviks

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When was it decided the Politburo would be a collective leadership and what did it mean ?

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1924
All decisions would be authorised and discussed prior to being established

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When and why did Lenin dissolve the constituent assembly?

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They were viewed as an opposition to the bolsheviks and after not winning a majority election in 1918 they were shut down

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5
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How did Lenin want his government?

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Centralised and militarised

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How did war communism win the civil war ?

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Diverted funds produced from private farming from grain requisitioning towards the red army with money food and supplies

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What are Lenin’s two main phrases ?

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“Peace, bread, land
“All power to the soviets “

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When was his Land decree ?

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1917

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What was Lenin’s land decree ?

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Redistribution of land from the nobility to the peasants in attempt to restore the long standing land inequalities

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When and what was the decree on workers ?

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1917
Have workers more power within the workplace by giving them more independence and control within production in industry

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When was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed ?

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1918

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What was the treaty of brest litovsk ?

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A treaty signed which ended russias involvement in ww1 and was part of Lenin’s consolidation of power

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What did Lenin want to accomplish within the state ?

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A one party state
( highly centralised and militarised)

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When was the Kronstadt uprising ?

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1921

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When was the Kronstadt uprising crushed ?

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1921 by red army led by Trotsky

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When and what was the red terror?

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1918-20
Elimination of all political opponents

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What were some reasons for the whites failure in the civil war ?

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They were ‘ ignorant and incompetent’
Funding from Britain stopped

18
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How big was the red army by 1919 ?

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1.6 million

19
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What was the ratio of white to reds in the civil war ?

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656,000 : 5 million

20
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How much had the Bolshevik party number grown thru the war ?

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150,000 to 600,000

21
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When was Lenin in power ?

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1917-1924

22
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What is a Figes quote relating to Lenin’s way of running the government?

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“ lenin allowed the social revolution to run its own course “

23
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What were the main aspects of Lenin’s gov ?

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War communism
Centralising and ministering the single party state
Establishment of power

24
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What were some of Lenin’s methods of establishment?

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Popular policies
Popular decrees
Weakness of provisional gov

25
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What were some of Lenin’s methods of consolidation ?

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Cheka
Trotsky and red army
Weakness of white army
War communism

26
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Who ran the Cheka

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Iron felix

27
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What did the Cheka stand for ?

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Organised terror

28
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What legacy did Lenin leave behind ?

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Very authoritarian and political legacy which needed to be succeeded

29
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Who did Lenin consider a political opposition?

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Counter revolutionaries
Opposing party members
Very powerful senior party members

30
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What and when was Lenin’s great terror ?

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1918-20
Period of intense political repression in which the Bolshevik’s party carried out mass imprisonment and persecution

31
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What were the first Lenin policies ?

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Land decree
Workers decree
Peace decree

32
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When and what was Lenin’s great terror ?

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1918-20
Period if Intense political repression in which the Bolshevik party carried out mass persecution of opponents

33
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Who was responsible for carrying out Lenin’s great terror ?

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Iron Felix

34
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What legacy did Lenin leave behind ?

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After dying in 1924 he left behind a very authoritarian political legacy after he succeeded in his militarised and central’s single party state

35
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By what year had Lenin manage to achieve his communist dictatorship of a one party state ?

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1922

36
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What outcomes did the civil war have on Lenin’s government?

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Authoritarian
Centralised
Militarised

37
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What was the role of a authoritarian government system ?

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Allowed for significant control over political economic and social affairs through the use of terror and violence to get rid of people

38
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Why was a centralised government effective ?

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Lenin believed that it ensured victory in the process of a socialist utopia
And removed threat by having a strong group of followers

39
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What was the sovnarkom ?

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Most trusted members of the politburo in the most powerful central committee

40
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Who’s ideology did Lenin follow and how did he achieve it ?

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He followed Marxism and replaced capitalism with socialism when he took power as head of government during the October revolution

41
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What were the main reasons Lenin was able to establish the soviet state ?

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Civil war
Terror
Popularity
Popular policies

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