THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - THE CREATION OF THE SOVNARKOM / CREATION OF THE CHEKA

Question 1

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…

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

EXECUTIVE BODY: POLITBURO

Answer 2

• Policy making arm of the Communist Party

Question 3

EXECUTIVE BODY: ORGBURO

Answer 3

• Organizing arm of the Communist Party

Question 4

EXECUTIVE BODY: SECRETARIART

Answer 4

• Appointed people to IMPLEMENT decisions of the Communist Party

Question 5

SVERDLOV AND THE CEC

• Administrator…
• Central…
• Main decision….

Answer 5

• Yakov Sverdlov
• Bolshevik party administrator
• Led the CEC
• CEC
• Central Executive Committee
• led by Sverdlov
• The main decision-making group of the Bolshevik Party

Question 6

CHEKA

• A
• R
• E
• C
• C
• C-R
• S
• S

Answer 6

• 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.