Lenin's Rise To Power

Question 1

Perhaps Seven Powers Gave Lenin An Opportunity

Answer 1

-Provisional Government
-Slogans, “peace, bread, land”, “all power to soviets”
-Pravda, a propaganda magazine meaning truth
-German Money, funds Bolsheviks
-Lenin
-Army, ‘Red Guards’, trained by Trotsky
-Organization, well organized

Question 2

Great Big Change Creates Terrible War

Answer 2

-Government Changes, Nov 1917 election
-Brest-Litovsk Treaty
-Communist State, land to peasants, factories to gov
-Communist Society, Ban religion, education reforms, domestic reforms
-Terror, Cheka, Tsar killed
-War Communism, military discipline, rationing and requisitioning

Question 3

How many seats did each party win in the November 1917 election?

Answer 3

Bolsheviks - 24%, 168/703
Left SR - 5.5%, 39/703
Right SR - 41%, 380/703

Question 4

Timeline 1917

Answer 4

April 3 - Lenin returns from exile
April 7 - April Theses
Oct 26 - 2nd All Russian Congress of Soviets, Lenin leads peoples commissars, Decrees on Peace and Land
November - Workers Control Decree, Propaganda for a ‘workers revolution’, Constituent assembly election
December - Armistice w/ Ge, Cheka formed, Decree on Church, Nationalization of banks
1918 - Jan 5 - Constituent Assembly meets, Chernow refuses Lenin’s decrees, Bolsheviks walk, others are ‘evicted’ and crowds are fired upon, 12 die

Question 5

Timeline 1918

Answer 5

1918 - Feb 2 - Gregorian Calender
Mar 3 - Brest-Litovsk
Mar 4 - Brits land in Murmansk
Mar 6-8 - 7th Bolshevik conference, adopt communist name
Mar 12 - Capital moves to Moscow
Mar 16-17 - Tsar Nick and his family killed