THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - THE CREATION OF THE SOVNARKOM / CREATION OF THE CHEKA Flashcards
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SOVNARKOM
- Divided into the Professional Revolution and the State
- Bolshevik’s description
- Dismantling the old regime
- New regime title…
- Cabinet…
- Chairman…
- 3 executive bodies…
- Passing decrees…
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- Bolsheviks: …Nationwide movement of workers, soldiers and peasants…
- Dismantling the old regime
- New regime: Government of People’s Commissars
- Cabinet: Sovnarkom: Council of People’s Commissars
- Sovnarkom
- 15 Bolshevik leaders. Each controlled specific governmental departments
- Lenin = Chairman.
- 3 x executive bodies: POLITBURO, ORGBURO, SECRETARIAT
- Passing decrees on peace and land
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EXECUTIVE BODY: POLITBURO
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- Policy making arm of the Communist Party
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EXECUTIVE BODY: ORGBURO
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- Organizing arm of the Communist Party
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EXECUTIVE BODY: SECRETARIART
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- Appointed people to IMPLEMENT decisions of the Communist Party
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SVERDLOV AND THE CEC
- Administrator…
- Central…
- Main decision….
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- Yakov Sverdlov
- Bolshevik party administrator
- Led the CEC
- CEC
- Central Executive Committee
- led by Sverdlov
- The main decision-making group of the Bolshevik Party
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CHEKA
- A
- R
- E
- C
- C
- C-R
- S
- S
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- The greatest weapon introduced by the Bolsheviks to establish POLITICAL CONTROL = The secret police (CHEKA). Established in December 1917
- End of 1917: 23 men
- 1921: 100,000 men
- CHEKA: All Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation and Sabotage
- Order was issued: February 1918: immediate arrest and execution - agents of enemy spies, C-R , organizers of revolts against the government.