Lenin - Political Auhtority

Question 1

When was the Sovnarkom formed

Answer 1

1917

Question 2

How often did the Sovnarkom meet

Answer 2

Every day

Question 3

What did the 1918 constitution claim

Answer 3

All power to the Sovnarkom

Question 4

Who chose the Sovnarkom

Answer 4

The Communist Party Central Committee

Question 5

When was Moscow made the capital? Why

Answer 5

March 1918

Moved away from white armies

Question 6

When was Nicholas and his family murdered

Answer 6

July 1918

Question 7

Why did they kill the Tsar

Answer 7

Worried he could become a figurehead of the white armies in the Civil War

Question 8

When was the Politburo established

Answer 8

March 1919

Question 9

What did the Politburo take over

Answer 9

Took over formulating policy from the Sovnarkom

Question 10

How many people made up the Politburo

Answer 10

7-9

Question 11

As the 1920s went on what happened to the Sovnarkom

Answer 11

Started meeting less frequently

Key decisions made in the Politburo

Question 12

Why was the Orgburo created

Answer 12

Created to supervise local party committees and party secretariat in order to ensure that the Politburo’s decisions were being followed

Question 13

Who was a member of both the Politburo and the Orgburo

Answer 13

Stalin

Question 14

When did the Bolshevik party become the communist party

Answer 14

March 1918

Question 15

Who temporarily resigned

Answer 15

Kamenev

Zinoviev

Question 16

What happened in January 1918

Answer 16

Demonstrators against dissolving the Constituent Assembly were shote at and 12 were killed

Question 17

When were the first show trials? What happened

Answer 17

1922

SRs - 34 condemned and 11 executed and the party banned

Question 18

How many Mensheviks were arrested

Answer 18

5,000

Question 19

How did the Bolsheviks centralise the economy

Answer 19

War communism

NEP 1921

Question 20

What had to happen with books, poems and other writings to be published

Answer 20

They had to be submitted for approval before they could be published

Question 21

What was attacked due to being seen as a rival

Answer 21

The church

Question 22

When was the Cheka renamed

Answer 22

1922

Question 23

What was the Cheka renamed to

Answer 23

The GPU

Question 24

What group formed inside the communist party

Answer 24

“Workers opposition”

Question 25

At the tenth party congress what was passed

Answer 25

Ban on factions

Question 26

What did the ban on factions mean

Answer 26

Once a decision has been made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party then no party member could openly disagree with the policy

Question 27

What principle was abandoned

Answer 27

National self-determination

Question 28

What were independence movements seen as

Answer 28

Counter-revolutionary

Question 29

In 1922 what did Stalin do

Answer 29

Brutally suppressed the independence movement in Georgia

Question 30

What established the USSR in 1922

Answer 30

The 1922 constitution

Question 31

What was the Nomenklatura system

Answer 31

List of 5,500 government posts

The holders could only be appointed by the Central Committee (based on loyalty)

Question 32

What did the Nomenklatura system lead to

Answer 32

Party members keen on promotion did not challenge or debate decisions of the leadership (rewarded with special privileges, such as better housing)