Bolshevik Consolidation of Power
This was the Bolshevik government formed after the October Revolution.
What was Sovnarkom?
This is the number of ex-Tsarist military officers Trotsky enlisted into the Red Army.
What is 50,000?
This organisation helped the Bolsheviks consolidate power but also showed a major continuity with authoritarian rule.
Who are the Cheka?
This individual’s leadership of the Cheka made him central to the Bolsheviks’ use of terror and repression.
Who is Felix Dzerzhinsky?
The % of Russian's could read and write by the mid-1920's.
What is 51%?
This elected body was shut down by the Bolsheviks after they failed to win majority support.
What was the Constituent Assembly?
This was the month and year of the Kronstadt uprising.
When was March 1921?
This is the number of Cheka employed by 1919.
What is 100,000 people?
This revolutionary was associated with reforms to women’s rights.
Who was Alexandra Kollontai?
This cultural development allowed artists to experiment with new revolutionary styles.
What was artistic experimentation?
This 1918 treaty ended Russia’s involvement in World War I.
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This policy allowed the Bolsheviks to take control of key industries while still permitting some private enterprise.
What is State Capitalism?
This person declared the Kronstadt Uprising ‘lit up reality like a lightening flash’.
Who was Lenin?
His organisation of the Red Army was crucial to Bolshevik victory in the Civil War.
Who was Trotsky?
The Marriage Decree was established in this Month and Year.
What was December 1917?
It removed Russia from World War I but damaged Bolshevik popularity because of the severe territorial and economic losses involved.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This policy showed Lenin’s willingness to compromise socialist ideals in order to stabilise Bolshevik rule.
What is the New Economic Policy?
This was introduced at the Tenth Party Congress to reduce dissent in the Party.
What was 'On Party Unity'?
This person stated that the Kronstadt sailors were “The pride and glory of the Revolution… the reddest of the red”.
Who is Trotsky?
This group was established in 1919 and was the Women's Bureau?
What was the Zhenotdel?
This event exposed the contradiction between Bolshevik claims of popular democracy and their willingness to reject electoral outcomes that threatened their control (January 1918).
What was the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly?
This crisis revealed the practical failure of grain requisitioning, economic disruption and Civil War conditions, resulting in 5 million deaths.
What was the Great Famine?
This crisis occurred when industrial prices rose while agricultural prices fell under the NEP.
His introduction of the NEP revealed both political pragmatism and the limits of immediate socialist transformation in post-revolutionary Russia.
Who is Lenin?
This rebellion revealed that peasant opposition to Bolshevik rule was not simply “counter-revolutionary”, but often a response to economic exploitation and survival pressures.
What was the Tambov rebellion?