U3 AOS2 Interpretations Flashcards
Lynch= Early problems facing Sovnarkom
‘gave little thought to how things would be organised’
Figes= Constituent Assembly
‘distant thing in the city’
Ryan= Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin’s ‘reputation as the Party’s wise eminent leader grew’
Cherniaev= Trotsky + Civil War
‘Trotsky bears a great deal of responsibility for the victory’
Schapiro= Civil War
‘the civil war left a lasting imprint on the communist party’
Figes= Civil War
‘nothing did more to shape the ruling attitudes of the Bolsheviks’
Volkogonov= The Red Terror
‘the leaders of the revolution had become priests of terror’
Figes= War Communism
‘an instrument of struggle against their social or ‘internal’ enemies’
Pipes= War Communism (abolition of money)
‘their irresponsibility was nowhere more evident than in their obstinate attempts to introduce a money-less economy’
Figes= Kronstadt Revolt
‘proof that the Bolsheviks had turned into tyrants’
Volkogonov= Lenin + Cheka
‘Lenin himself was the patron saint of the Cheka’
Service= New Decrees
‘they were designed to inspire, to excite and to instigate’
History of CPSU= War Communism
‘the party had gone too far ahead’
Lynch= 1921 Famine
The Famine was ‘caused by a combination of requisitioning, drought and the general disruptions of war’
Figes= 1921 Famine
‘the single biggest killer of these years’
