To what extent did the Bolshevik government consolidate communist rule in Russia in the years 1918-21?

Question 1

Government

Answer 1

Set up a degree for the sovnarkrom which was going to be the new form of government for Lenin was the chairmen, lacked experienced and the banks refused to fund it, wasn’t substantial but helped them increase there power.

Other political groups to oppose the Bolsheviks were mainly divided

Setting up the USSR, State without boundaries, don’t exclude anyone, up to unify people under the communist

Question 2

military

Answer 2

Treaty of breast Litovsk ( March 1917) ending of Russia involvement in WW1, Russia agreed to loss a third of there population and 50% of there industry, However although it wasn’t popular it allowed, the communist to focus on consolidate there power and maintain support .

Victory in the civil war incredible important, defeating the white meant that no one was going to replace the leadership and would of lost there power

Question 3

economy

Answer 3

Failed war communism, consisted of 
Grain requisition  
Got rid of money 
Famine in 1921 
Peasant uprising in Tamber 20-21
Kronstadt rising 1921 over living conditions 

Leading to the NEP (new economy polices)
re introduced the free market, went against the bolshiness ideals however won support form the wider support
Also this removed grain requisitions
This all lead to better harvest, and factory input improved 200% from 20-23

Not the main reason, which lead to the scissor crisis, to much food which meant, food prices went down

Question 4

social

Answer 4

Decree on Land in 1917, designed to confiscate private land and reallocate it to peasants. less likely rebellions from them meaning society was more stable

Question 5

repressions

Answer 5

Represses policies for example, the banning of other parties 1921, ( Only party). Also the (10th party congress) Banned all other faction within the communist party making Lenin the unlimited leader of the whole of the communist, and had total control. Used the Pravda paper as a tool to spread propaganda.

Censorship, meant by 1918 it was a one party state

Cheka in 1917, was used to put down uprising, (for example 60,000 troops used to put down the Kronstad rebellion), Hunt down rebelled, used to kill the ex tsar and his family, which removed a focus for opposition

Question 6

1917 election and y they needed to consulate there power

Answer 6

social revolutionaries 40%
Bolsheviks 24% and they didn’t want dual attorney
Therefore used the red guard to close the constituent assembly, when it refused Bolsheviks