The Bolsheviks In Power (5) Flashcards
When was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
March 1918
When was the Cheka created?
December 1917
When was War Communism?
1918-1921
When were the Bolsheviks named the Communist Party?
March 1919
How could Lenin be described throughout the problems facing the Bolsheviks?
Pragmatic
What does pragmatic mean?
An approach in which policies are modified according to circumstance rather than keeping with a fixed theory
What were the two main features of Soviet Russia’s Government in 1924?
Sovnarkom
the Secretariat
What was the transitional stage between a bourgeois to a proletarian economy known as?
State capitalism
What had the war meant for Russia? (4 examples)
It had brought it to a point of economic collapse
- Shortage of raw materials
- Transport system had been crippled
- Hunger- 13mt of grain short
- Inflation
What was the “Decree on Land?”
Gave approval to that had been happening in the countryside
Private ownership of land was to be abolished, and it was to be given to the peasants
What was the “Decree on Workers control?
Authorising what had already occurred, when workers took over factories
What was Vesenkha?
The Supreme Council of the National Economy
it was a body to oversee economic development
What was the Cheka?
The Bolshevik Secret Police
Why was the Constituent Assembly dismissed?
The results of the November election were bad for the Bolsheviks
How did Lenin and Trotsky have a different attitude to war?
Lenin wanted an immediate peace
Trotsky wanted a delay
Who were the Reds in the CW?
The Bolsheviks and their supporters
Who were the Whites in CW?
Bolshevik opponents, such as those who had supported the Tsarist regime
Who were the Greens in the CW?
The armies mainly made up by national minorities
Why is it thought Lenin wanted a Civil War?
If the Bolsheviks won, it would wipe out all Bolshevik opponents, both military and political
How did Lenin feel about CW?
A short, brutal struggle would be better than years of harassment by anti-Bolsheviks
What were the White Weaknesses in the CW?
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- White armies fought separately
- Not bound by a single aim
- Unwilling to sacrifice individual interests so could be picked off separately
- Too widely spread geographically
- Too reliant on supplies from abroad
- Lacked a strong leader like Trotsky
What were the Red Strengths in the CW?
4
- Remained in control of the central area of Russia, which they could defend by maintaining transport and supply lines
- Kept hold of Petrograd and Moscow which were the administrative centres of Russia
- Held the key industrial areas where they created weapons
- The Red Army was brilliantly led by Trotsky
What were Trotsky’s 3 main strategies in CW?
- Defend the Red Army’s internal lines of communication
- Deny the Whites the opportunity to unite into one large force
- Prevent the Whites from maintaining regular supplies
What were the two main ideas in Red propaganda?
- Show how vicious and cruel the Whites were
2. Showed the idea of an ideal Bolshevik live vs the return to Tsarist regime
