Political - Key Facts Flashcards
Demands of the April Thesis
- Power transferred to the Soviet
- War brought to an end
- Land should be taken and re-allocated to the peasants
Number Bolsheviks members in April 1917
26,000
Grain prices …
Doubled
Number of factories that were forced to close
Under the Provisional Government
586
Newspaper that denounced the role of the Bolsheviks
Izvestia
Head of the Coup in August 1917
General Kornilov
Percentage increase of Bolshevik support between June and December
164%
Number of Bolshevik members in October 1917
200,000
Bolsheviks that voted against the Bolshevik Coup
- Zinoviev
- Kamenev
Committee that the Bolsheviks were able to set up under the Petrograd Soviet
Military Revolutionary Committee
Number of Kronstadt sailors and soldiers that seized key positions in Petrograd
5,000
Name of the ship that the blank shot was fired off at 9:40pm
Battleship Aura
Number of people Trotsky claimed were involved with the October Revolution
25,000 - 30,000
Number of people that were actually involved in the October Revolution
10,000 - 15,000
Number of delegates that attended the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
670
The new decrees that Lenin announced in October 1917
- Decree on Peace
- Decree on Land
- Nationalisation of Banks
Turnout for the Constituents Assembly
41.7 million
Number of votes the Social Revolutionaries won in the Constituents Assembly Elections
21.8 million
Number of votes the Bolsheviks won in the Constituents Assembly Elections
10 million
Weighing of Workers’ Vote in the 1918 Contituents Assembly
5:1
Number of Red Army troops that had to be deployed to deal with troubles in the Tambov region
100,000
Fractional reduction in bread rations
1/3
