Russia under Lenin 1917-1924

Question 1

Communism background

Answer 1

Marx + Engels
Proletarians (people) overthrow gov
No class

Question 2

Communism - end goal

Answer 2

no currency all gov given
State control production+distribution
Bolsheviks 1st communist nation-⅓ world

Question 3

When was Tsar Nicholas made abdicate

Answer 3

March 1917

Question 4

October rebellion causes

Answer 4

Tsar Nicolas 2 abdicated - provisional government, promised social change+democracy but too slow, no public distribution/end to war. Democratising left to trade unions/Soviets

Question 5

Main Soviet

Answer 5

Petrograd soviet - Trotsky

Question 6

When did Lenin return from exile

Answer 6

April 1917

Question 7

Rise of the Bolshevics

Answer 7

Lenin returns from exile, denounces provisional gov, calls for end to war+ resource distribution, followers ordered to infiltrate Soviets

Question 8

Bolshevics get Moscow + Petrograd

Answer 8

Kornilov staged a failed coup of the provisional gov, provisional gov release Bolshevik prisoners to get their support, essential to survive, Bolsheviks gained support + control of the Moscow+Petrograd Soviets - Trotsky

Question 9

October Revolution

Answer 9

25 Oct Red Guard surround Winter Palace in largely bloodless takeover. 26 Oct 2nd national

Question 10

Dictatorship

Answer 10

Congress of soviets, Lenin+Bolsheviks official gov. Bolsheviks lost Nov elections so Lenin banned elections

Question 11

Head of Cheka

Answer 11

Felix Dzerzhinsky

Question 12

New government reforms

Answer 12

Nobles land redistributed
Workers given control of production means
Ranks + nobility abolished
Emphasis on literacy
End involvement in WW1

Question 13

Civil war October 1919

Answer 13

Rich hated communism
Red vs White
White uncoordinated
Trotsky + great ammo
Red terror
War communsim

Question 14

Red Terror

Answer 14

Mass executions
Lead by Trotsky
250,000 killed by Cheka

Question 15

War Communism results

Answer 15

Most food distributed to those involved in war - famine
Millions of Russians killed + tortured
6 million died of starvation

Question 16

NEP causes

Answer 16

Combo of war communism, drought + civil unrest = famine -> Revolts
Lenin made the NEP to placate them

Question 17

NEP - how it went

Answer 17

Taxes instead of grain seizure but banks + large industry still under state control
Weather=slow start but huge progress

Question 18

Lenin NEP quote

Answer 18

“Only agreement with the peasantry can save the socialist revolution in Russia”

Question 19

Consolidating power

Answer 19

1921 all other political parties were banned - True dictatorship

Question 20

Countries in USSR

Answer 20

Russia, Belarussia, Trancaucasia + Ukraine

Question 21

Foreign policy

Answer 21

Saw that communist uprising wouldn’t spread - re-established trade with other counties. Traded arms to Germany in exchange for military training

Question 22

Death of lenin

Answer 22

Had 2 strokes in 1922 - wrote his Testament.

Question 23

Date of Lenin’s death

Answer 23

21st Jan 1924

Question 24

Lenin’s opinion of Stalin

Answer 24

“Stalin is too crude”
“I therefore propose to comrades that they should devise a means of removing him from this job”