The Communist Dictatorship Flashcards
During 1917 to 18, what decrease had Lenin issued?
October 1917 decrees on peace and land, followed by a nationality decrees in November, and a decree to nationalise church and land
Another to set up the check out in December and an early 1918 further decrease clarified the separation of the church and state, and the nationalisation of industry and socialisation of land
In the 1918 constitution, what had it stated?
Supreme power rested with that, or Russian Congress of Soviets
The central executive committee of the Congress was to be the supreme organ of power
The Congress would elect sovnarkom
What did Lenin claim to have established and How ?
Claim to have established democratic centralism with elections from the lowest level to the top
How did Lenin not actually establish democratic centralism?
The former people were not allowed to vote or hold office
The workers voters waited 5 to 1 against out of the peasants
Sovnarkom was in practice chosen by the Communist Party Central committee
What happened after the Bolsheviks agreed to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Political opposition groups trying to create the force of the whites. These are supported by Britain, France and the USA
What did the Bolsheviks do in March 1918
They moved the capital to Moscow in the view of growing threat, posed by Graham, fourth of whites in the south
What was the damage the Civil War cost?
10 million lives
Why were the reds better off?
They enjoyed geographical advantages, better communications, and superior organisation and the white
What is the parallel structure of the Soviet government?
Sovnarkom
Central committee
Congress of Soviets
Provisional and city, Soviets
Local and district, Soviets
What was the parallel structure of the Communist Party?
Politburo
Central committee
Congress
Provisional and city parties
Local parties
Who made policies and decisions
They were made by the party and in 1919, a new party politburo became the real Centre for policy. The executive committee of the Congress of Soviets became simply a means of carrying out policy is made by the party and local Soviets became to preserve a party members only.
What made it difficult to criticise party decisions
The 1921 Ballon factions as anyone who did not accept the party’s decision could be expelled
In April 1922, what position was created to coordinate the parties workings?
General secretary, the post was the filled by Stalin
What did the Nomenklatura system mean ?
The appointments to keep party and government post to be a group of the parties Central committee. This system created a lawyer party Ellie, who were given special privileges.
After the Civil War, what did the government cease to support?
National self-determination independence movements were the announcers counterrevolutionary and in 1922, demands for Georgia, for greater independence, were brutally crushed
