Nature Of Government Flashcards
What day did Lenin allow the Constituent Assembly to meet?
5th Jan 1918
Which policy solved the Land question?
The decree on land (Nov 1917)
Land could no longer be bought or sold and belonged to the “entire people”
Which Treaty ended the War between Germany and Russia?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
When was the treaty of Brest litovsk signed?
3 March 1918
What did Russia lose after WW1?
•1/3 of its railways
•1/6 of its population (62 million)
•1/3 of its agricultural land
•1/2 of its heavy industry
•Almost all of its oil in the west
What working reforms did SOVNARKOM bring?
8 hour working day, 48 hour working week
How did SOVNARKOM enforce censorship?
All non Bolshevik newspapers banned
Who tried to shoot lenin during a talk to workers?
Fanya Kaplain, August 1918 in protest of the treaty of brest litovsk
How did Lenin close down rival parties?
•SRs were accused of being involved in Lenin’s attempted assassination
- 34 found guilty
-11 executes
•5000 Mensheviks arrested
•Kadets banned and leaders arrested
Examples of peasant opposition to grain requisitioning
•One officer had his stomach split open and stuffed with grain
•12 officers decapitated with their heads mounted onto poles
How did Lenin deal with peasant opposition?
Told Cheka to “hang no fewer than a hundred well known kulaks”
-suspected 300,000 deaths at the hands of the Cheka
What were the votes for the SRs vs the Bolsheviks in the constituent assembly?
SRs 34% (mostly peasants)
Bolsheviks 23% (only targeted cities)
In which document did Lenin declare that he did not want Stalin as his successor?
Lenin’s political testiment
How did Stalin gain supporters at Lenin’s funeral?
•Told Trotsky it was on a different day
•Deliverer a speech promising to continue Lenin’s work
•Sat close to the body as one of the main mourners
How many people queued to see Lenin’s body?
3.5 million
How many people joined the league of militant godless and what did they do?
Anti religious pressure group who informed Russians of how religion was a harmful leftover of the past
3.5 million joined by 1941
Which religious reform did Lenin introduced in 1918?
The decree of the separation of the church from the state and school
How did Lenin use terror against churches?
1922- Confiscated church valuables under the impression of “helping the hungry”
2000 priests and others who tried to protect the church were shot
How many deaths are the Cheka supposedly responsible for?
300,000
