Unit three Flashcards
Decree on Land - November R
Requisition of private land by peasants
Decree on Peace - October
Immediate truce + peaceful settlement
Brest Litovsk
December 1917
1/3 European Russia to Ger
3 billion roubles
Useless due to defeat
Cvil war Dates
1918-1920
Red civil war?
Consolidate grip on power
White civil war?
Challnege B rule
Green civil war?
National independence
Leadership
Trotsky = good
Lenin = good at home
White suffered through leadership
Resources
3 million vs 500,000
Reliance on foreign support
WHy foreign help
Resentment after Russia left the war
Fear of Bolshevikism
Anger at wiping foreign debt
Why foreign help failed?
Lack of co-ordination
Tired after WW1
Very limited objectives
Not a concentrated effort
War communism
State capitalism and grain requisitioning to help meet the needs of the Civil War
Didn’t work - 1921 famine
Cheka - December 1917
Opposed opposition
Cheka use
Enforcing ‘War Communist’
Introduction of the Labour Code
Elimination of Kulaks (rich, exploiting peasants)
Administration of Gulag labour camps
Militarisation of labour
Cheka powers
Arrest
Detention
Torture
Tsar execution
Cheka - July 1918
Kronstadt rising
1921 - opposition to cheka / food requisition / spying
60,000 RA crushed uprising
Worrying - supported Bs 1917
NEP
1921
Closer to capitalism - disliked
Production under NEP
Factory output value x2
Average wage x2
Electricity production x3
Grain production 37% increase
Features of NEP
Central controll relaxed
Grain requisitioning stopped - tax
Surplus allowed tp keep
Good Lenin
Took advantage of weaknesses
Flexible = Peasants
Intelligent
Support of BS
Bad Lenin
Opressor
Opposition
Reforms = backwards
Lenin dies
1924
