Unit three

Question 1

Decree on Land - November R

Answer 1

Requisition of private land by peasants

Question 2

Decree on Peace - October

Answer 2

Immediate truce + peaceful settlement

Question 3

Brest Litovsk

Answer 3

December 1917
1/3 European Russia to Ger
3 billion roubles
Useless due to defeat

Question 4

Cvil war Dates

Answer 4

1918-1920

Question 5

Red civil war?

Answer 5

Consolidate grip on power

Question 6

White civil war?

Answer 6

Challnege B rule

Question 7

Green civil war?

Answer 7

National independence

Question 8

Leadership

Answer 8

Trotsky = good
Lenin = good at home
White suffered through leadership

Question 9

Resources

Answer 9

3 million vs 500,000
Reliance on foreign support

Question 10

WHy foreign help

Answer 10

Resentment after Russia left the war
Fear of Bolshevikism
Anger at wiping foreign debt

Question 11

Why foreign help failed?

Answer 11

Lack of co-ordination
Tired after WW1
Very limited objectives
Not a concentrated effort

Question 12

War communism

Answer 12

State capitalism and grain requisitioning to help meet the needs of the Civil War
Didn’t work - 1921 famine

Question 13

Cheka - December 1917

Answer 13

Opposed opposition

Question 14

Cheka use

Answer 14

Enforcing ‘War Communist’
Introduction of the Labour Code
Elimination of Kulaks (rich, exploiting peasants)
Administration of Gulag labour camps
Militarisation of labour

Question 15

Cheka powers

Answer 15

Arrest
Detention
Torture

Question 16

Tsar execution

Answer 16

Cheka - July 1918

Question 17

Kronstadt rising

Answer 17

1921 - opposition to cheka / food requisition / spying
60,000 RA crushed uprising
Worrying - supported Bs 1917

Question 18

NEP

Answer 18

1921
Closer to capitalism - disliked

Question 19

Production under NEP

Answer 19

Factory output value x2
Average wage x2
Electricity production x3
Grain production 37% increase

Question 20

Features of NEP

Answer 20

Central controll relaxed
Grain requisitioning stopped - tax
Surplus allowed tp keep

Question 21

Good Lenin

Answer 21

Took advantage of weaknesses
Flexible = Peasants
Intelligent
Support of BS

Question 22

Bad Lenin

Answer 22

Opressor
Opposition
Reforms = backwards

Question 23

Lenin dies

Answer 23

1924