Lenin Government

Question 1

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

Answer 1

1919

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

When and why did Lenin dissolve the constituent assembly?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

How did Lenin want his government?

Answer 5

Centralised and militarised

Question 6

How did war communism win the civil war ?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What are Lenin’s two main phrases ?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

When was his Land decree ?

Answer 8

1917

Question 9

What was Lenin’s land decree ?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

When and what was the decree on workers ?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

When was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed ?

Answer 11

1918

Question 12

What was the treaty of brest litovsk ?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What did Lenin want to accomplish within the state ?

Answer 13

A one party state
( highly centralised and militarised)

Question 14

When was the Kronstadt uprising ?

Answer 14

1921

Question 15

When was the Kronstadt uprising crushed ?

Answer 15

1921 by red army led by Trotsky

Question 16

When and what was the red terror?

Answer 16

1918-20
Elimination of all political opponents

Question 17

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

Answer 17

They were ‘ ignorant and incompetent’
Funding from Britain stopped

Question 18

How big was the red army by 1919 ?

Answer 18

1.6 million

Question 19

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

Answer 19

656,000 : 5 million

Question 20

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

Answer 20

150,000 to 600,000

Question 21

When was Lenin in power ?

Answer 21

1917-1924

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What were the main aspects of Lenin’s gov ?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What were some of Lenin’s methods of establishment?

Answer 24

Popular policies
Popular decrees
Weakness of provisional gov

Question 25

What were some of Lenin’s methods of consolidation ?

Answer 25

Cheka Trotsky and red army Weakness of white army War communism

Question 26

Who ran the Cheka

Answer 26

Iron felix

Question 27

What did the Cheka stand for ?

Answer 27

Organised terror

Question 28

What legacy did Lenin leave behind ?

Answer 28

Very authoritarian and political legacy which needed to be succeeded

Question 29

Who did Lenin consider a political opposition?

Answer 29

Counter revolutionaries Opposing party members Very powerful senior party members

Question 30

What and when was Lenin’s great terror ?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What were the first Lenin policies ?

Answer 31

Land decree Workers decree Peace decree

Question 32

When and what was Lenin’s great terror ?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Iron Felix

Question 34

What legacy did Lenin leave behind ?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

1922

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Authoritarian Centralised Militarised

Question 37

What was the role of a authoritarian government system ?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Why was a centralised government effective ?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What was the sovnarkom ?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Civil war Terror Popularity Popular policies