Russia PG And Lenin

Question 1

Problems facing the PG

P

Answer 1

Not elected, PS=3000, DA

DE sent exiled revolutionaries to Russia to cause rebellion

Question 2

Problems facing PG

M

Answer 2

Defeats in war, soldiers were deserting
SONI issued
When soldiers returned, land from nobility was seized

Question 3

Problems facing the PG

Ec

Answer 3

Peasants were looting the property of the landlords

People wanted end of food shortages

Question 4

PG reforms

P

Answer 4

Amnesty for P prisoners, freedom of speech, remove secret police, promise of elected Parliament

Question 5

PG reforms
Ec
S

Answer 5

8 hour working day, Trade Unions, freedom of religion

Question 6

July Days

Why

Answer 6

War not going well, defeated on AU front, deserters gathered in Petrograd, tried to overthrow PG as PG want the war to continue

Question 7

July Days

What

Answer 7

PG used police, fired on demonstrators, Bolsheviks formed RG-10000, demonstrated vs PG, 400 killed

Question 8

July Days

Effects

Answer 8

Bolsheviks blamed for chaos, Kerensky became PM of PG, previously member of PS

Question 9

July to August

Answer 9

Kerensky=PM of PG, new reforms in ind+land ownership.

Control in cities depends on army, control in rural, limited, looting from landlords

Question 10

Kornilov coup

Answer 10

Kornilov=supreme commander of RA wants military dictatorship, war to continue. DE threatened Petrograd, increased deserters, K supported PG=stability but wants removal of PS+PG, PG turned to Bolsheviks RG for support, K prevented from entering Petrograd, arrested

Question 11

Lenin

April

Answer 11

Return from exile April Thesis, ‘All Power to Soviets’

L take control, take RU out of war, not right for revolution yet, not secure in support

Question 12

Lenin

July

Answer 12

40 Bolshevik newspapers, 10000 RG
Led Bolsheviks in exile ‘Peace, Breadland’

Spread influence, slogan summarises B

Question 13

Sept

Lenin

Answer 13

KC, BRG armed by PG to put down revolt, increase in support
Trotsky, chair of PS

Big mistake for PG, B kept rifles from PG, B save Petrograd

Question 14

Oct

Lenin

Answer 14

Bolshevik, unlikely to win majority in CA, revolution must happen before captured by Kerensky, meeting of Second All Russian Congress of Soviets, formation of Bolshevik govt

Limited support, had to strike before election wanted right time
Bolsheviks in power

Question 15

Main weaknesses of PG

Answer 15

Bolsheviks reliant in KC
Not representative govt
MC dom
Limited reform
Stay in war
DA
Temporary
SONI

Question 16

Mistakes of the PG

Answer 16

Bolshevik reliant
Election for CA in November
Limited reform, only in UA
Stay in war
K reliant to remove PS

Question 17

Role of Trotsky

Answer 17

Menshevik until Aug
Chairman of PS
In triumvirate in MRC, 20000RG, 60000 soldiers, 150000 PS soldiers
Organised lock down of Winter Palace

Question 18

Sept 25

Answer 18

Trotsky Chairman of PS, Bolshevik majority, T leader of MRC

B in positions of power+armed forced

Question 19

Oct 7

Answer 19

250000 Bolsheviks in party

Not maj, time=right

Question 20

Oct 10

Answer 20

L got B Central Committee to agree to an uprising, Kamenev, Zinoviev, objected in paper

PG alerted

Question 21

Oct 21

Answer 21

Army units loyal to T+MRC, Soldiers at Peter+Paul fortress, loyal to MRC

PG lack military support B had more support

Question 22

Oct 24

Answer 22

K shut down B newspaper, Order arrest of MRC, T+MRC surrounded WP

K tried to limit power, isolate PG from outside world

Question 23

Oct 25

Answer 23

K fled, Women’s Battalion surrender

Weak PG collapse

Question 24

Oct 26

Answer 24

WP taken, PG arrested, B (390/650), walked out

Solidified B govt, only 5 killed