Prelim Round 4 mistakes

Question 1

February and WW1

Answer 1

Inflation: Short of reserves to fund the war effort, the government resorted to printing out excess money. Wealthy hurts as well as poor (struggled to get basic essentials) as possessions lost value so basically became less rich
Factories used for military purposes so less supplies at home
War defeats and losses damaged country morale

Question 2

October

Answer 2

Dual Power forced Petrograd Soviet and Provisional Government to negotiate policies
Lenin plans-What is to be done? - Secretly planned, popularly revolution
Under 20k armed for July Days in 1917
September 14 Lenin sends letter to Bolshevik Central Committee in Moscow and Petrograd.
Lenin decided that the Red Guards defending Petrograd should start a revolution.

Question 3

Civil War

Answer 3

Whites deserted too

Trotsky passionate and organised

Trotsky use carrot (promoted people who were loyal and showed and good intitive) and stick (basically discipline)

Peasants supported reds after land decrees until grain requisitioning May 1918

Reds said Whites would take land back from peasants.

Question 4

Stalin

Answer 4

Trotsky from 1924 is when he got hostile reception in Congress
Stalin made most of roles which party members thought they were dull
Stalin - neutral and underestimated