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Lenin’s consolidation of power Flashcards

1
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Why were the Bolsheviks struggling after their consolidation of power

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They had few plans in terms of organisation due to all the time spent preparing for revolution

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What did Trotsky believe was a simple way of helping the government

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Issuing a few decrees

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What did Lenin claim the revolution to be

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A taking of power by the Soviets

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4
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Who did Lenin persist the sovnarkom was set up by

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The congress of Soviets

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Why were the Bolsheviks in a position to make their own rules

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Traditional forms of government had fallen with the tsar

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6
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Who provided the members of Lenin’s government

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The central committee of the Bolshevik party

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How did Lenin demand the Bolshevik party operate

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According the the principle of democratic centralism

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What is democratic centralism

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A formula that guarantees that power is exercised from the top down

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9
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Who had Lenin written powerfully against before the revolution

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Landlords and grasping capitalists

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10
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When would Lenin use existing structures until

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A fully fledged socialist system could be adapted

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Why couldn’t Lenin introduce a new revolutionary policy

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Because their authority didn’t run much further than Petrograd and Moscow

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12
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Which 3 issues had war against Germany and Austria caused for Russia

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Shortage of raw materials, fractured transport system and grain supplies were short

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13
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What was the decree on peace an appeal for

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The warring nations to enter into talks

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15
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What was issued in the decree on land

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Private land ownership demolished

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What did decree on workers control do

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Accepted workers takeover as long as they maintained order and discipline

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What was the vesenkha

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Set up in December 1917 to take charge of the regulation of economic life

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18
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What did the vesenkha preside over

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Banks and railways were nationalised, foreign debts were cancelled and transport system was improved

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What was the decree on nationalisation

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Laid down a programme for the takeover by the state of larger industrial concerns

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20
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What did Lenin have no faith in

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Democratic elections

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21
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Who gained majority in the constituent assembly

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SRs

22
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When was the constituency dissolved

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After one days session

23
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How was the constituent assembly dissolved

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At gunpoint by red guards

24
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Why were allies still able to intervene

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Because Russia was still at war

25
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How did Lenin excuse his brutal dissolution of the constituent assembly

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By claiming that the soviet had already achieved assembly and that the results were rigged and didn’t represent the people of Russia

26
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What did Maxim gorky compare the dissolution of the assembly to

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Bloody Sunday

27
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What did Rosa Luxembourg feel about Lenin’s behaviour

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She disproved of him and condemned the elimination of democracy in Russia

28
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Why was it impossible for Russia to fight a successful war

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Because of its military exhaustion

29
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What would Germany retain if it won the war

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Russian territory on both sides

30
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What had the German foreign office given to Lenin

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Substantial amounts of money

31
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Why was peace with Germany in Lenin’s interest

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Because it was the best guarantee against drying up lucrative source of Bolshevik revenue

32
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What was Trotsky determined to turn peace talks into

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A protracted affair in hopes of the collapse of Germany on both fronts

33
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What did Trotsky want to buy time for

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The Bolshevik agitators to exploit mutinies in the Austro-Hungarian armies

34
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What was Trotsky slogan

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Neither peace nor war

35
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What was Trotskys slogan intended to do

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Confuse and infuriate German delegation

36
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How did trostky behave in peace talks

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He would yawn loudly and start private conversations

37
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What did Trotsky say in his speeches during peace talks

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He appealed to Germany to overthrow its corrupt bourgeois government

38
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What was Lenin and Trotskys belief

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That history and time was on their side

39
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What was trostky and Lenin’s main concern

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Spreading proletarian revolution, they had little loyalty to Russia

40
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When were the soviet delegation willing to sign the peace treaty

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When they realised they wanted to overthrow Lenin

41
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What did nikov call peace treaty to be

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A German diktat

42
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How much land was lost in the treaty of brest-litovsk

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1/3 if European Russia

43
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How much of russias population was lost in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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45 million

44
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How much was Russia required to pay in war reparations

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3 billion roubles

45
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How did Lenin justify his signing of the treaty to the Bolsheviks

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By stressing that his policy of military exhaustion was the only realistic one

46
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Why did Lenin believe that he would have the ability to retake the land Germany took

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Because he believed the aftermath of the war would soon develop into a capitalist conflict

47
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In Lenin’s view, what had WWI been caused by

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The rivalry between imperialist powers competing for markets to invest their surplus capital

48
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How much did Lenin gain his way by

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Just one vote

49
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What persuaded left communists to accept the treaty

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Lenin’s insistence on the need for loyalty at a time of crisis

50
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Why could Lenin strengthen his hold over the party

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Because of the German collapse on the western front and the almost complete withdrawal from Russia

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