The Red Terror

Question 1

How many deaths did the red terror cause?

Answer 1

50,000

Question 2

Why did the Bolsheviks face opposition from the workers?

Answer 2

• Angry at rations, economy and violence

—> calls for respiration of consistuent assembly, elections and overthrow of Sovnarkom

—> “Down with Lenin and horsemeat, give us the Tsar and pork’

Question 3

Why did the Bolsheviks face opposition from the Anarchists?

Answer 3

• They opposed all forms of government

Question 4

Why did the Bolsheviks face opposition from the left wing SRs?

Answer 4

• Protested treaty of Brest-Litovsk
—> Shot German ambassador to try
ruin relationship with Germany

• Captured Dzerzhinsky (head of the
Cheka)

• Attempted to assassinate Lenin and killed 2 other Bolshevik leaders
—> caused Cheka to launch red terror

Question 5

What happened during the red terror

Answer 5

• SRs and other extreme left wing groups arrested in large numbers
—> Mensheviks & SRs excluded form
soviets

• Cheka announced 13,000 dead
—> actual figure near 300,000

• Children made up 5% of population in Moscow prisons
—> guilty of bourgeois/counter-
revolutionarey behaviour