Return Of Lenin and Oct Rev Flashcards
Apr 1917
Lenin returns from Finland w/ APRIL THESES and policies like:
All power to the soviets
Peace, land and bread
All power to the peasantry
Jun 1917
Kerensky, Minister of War, persuaded army to play offensive in JUNE OFFENSIVE
3 - 6 Jul 1917
JULY DAYS, where Bolsheviks attempted to overthrow PG. Lenin fled the country
Aug 1917
KORNILOV REVOLT, where General KORNILOV threatened to seize power and marched for military dictatorship. Country placed under martial law.
Sep 1917
Bolsheviks become major party and Trotsky is elected Chairman
7 Oct
Lenin returns from Finland
10 Oct
Meeting for vote for Rev. Only Zveriev and Kamanev vote against.
16 Oct
Military Revolutionary Committee organised by Trotsky
23 Oct
Garrison agrees to support Bolsheviks
23/24 Oct
Troops try to close Pravda and Izvesta, but are stopped by MRC
24/25 Oct
Rev launched and bridges are seized
25 Oct (3 times)
10am - Lenin’s speech “PG is no more, power to the Bolsheviks”
11.30 am - Aurora fires at Winter Palace
01.30 am - PG are captured. 6 deaths.
Who were the Sovnarkom and who was in it?
The Council of People’s Commissars consisting of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Alexandra Kollontai
What was Lenin’s role?
Chairman
What was Trotsky’s role?
Commissar for War (from 1918)
What was Stalin’s role?
Commissar for Nationalities (as he was also Georgian)
Why was Alexandra Kollontai significant in Sovnarkom?
The first woman to be in power in such a way
What policies and decrees were introduced? (4)
Employment insurance for the sick, Decree on Titles, Decree on Land, Decree on Marriage, non-Bolshevik newspapers banned
What was the Okhrana rebranded as and where was the HQ? Who controlled it?
The Cheka from Lubyanka, Moscow by Felix Dzershinski
How many people were killed by Cheka between 1917 and 1924?
More than 250,000
What was the Constituent Assembly?
The Constituent Assembly decided who would govern, which Lenin did not like.
What number of seats was won by each party in the Constituent Assembly in Nov?
370 - Kadets
175 - Bolsheviks
17 - SRs
16 - Mensheviks
Why did Lenin get rid of the Assembly?
The SRs won more seats
When was the Treaty of Brest Litovsk signed?
3 Mar 1918
What percentage of things were lost in this Treaty? (4)
62 mil pop
27% farmland
26% railways
74% iron and coal
When was the Romanov family taken to the House of Special Purpose in Ekaterinburg and under the commandment of who?
30 Apr 1918 under the commandment of Yakov Yurovsky
When and how was the family executed?
17 Jul 1918, burnt with acid
When did Kerensky become Prime Minister of PG?
8 Jun 1917
How did the PG ultimately fail? (3)
They did not acknowledge national minorities
Did not take any action upon peasants seizing land
War was not stopped due to upcoming elections in Nov
Who organised the rev?
Trotsky
Give an example of a Bolshevik newspaper
Iskra
