Lesson 6-What was the nature of the government under Lenin?

Question 1

Define trade union

Answer 1

An organisation which represents the workers’ interests

Question 2

Define factory committee

Answer 2

A small group which represented workers in a particular factory

Question 3

Define democratic centralism

Answer 3

The Leninist organisational system in which policy is decided centrally and is binding on all members

Question 4

Define soviets

Answer 4

An elected local, District or national Council in the former Soviet Union

Question 5

Define Sovnarkom

Answer 5

The Council of People’s Commissars
The Russian Government

Question 6

Who were the Central Executive Committee?

Answer 6

Co-ordinated all government administration and oversaw law making

Question 7

Who were the All-Russian Congress of Soviets?

Answer 7

The Supreme law-making body of the state.

Question 8

Who were the Politburo?

Answer 8

The principal policymaking committee of a Communist Party
They basically made swift decisions

Question 9

Who were the Central Committee?

Answer 9

The Central Committee directed all party and government activities between each Party Congress. Members of the committee were elected at the Party Congresses

Question 10

What is the Party Congress?

Answer 10

Was the gathering of the delegates (representatives) of the Communist Party

Question 11

Who were the Local Party branches?

Answer 11

Represented the Communist Party at a local level