Consolidating Power
1.What is the common name for the Council of People’s Commissar’s (administrators).
Sovnarkom
1.The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk prompted which group to act against Russia?
The Whites
Event that occurred on 30 August 1918.
Attempted assassination of Lenin by Fanya Kaplan.
The date when the policies of War Communism were first implemented.
June 1918
According to Trotsky, the Kronstadt sailors were… “The pride and joy of the revolution…
the reddest of the red”
Which Bolshevik was responsible for changes to living and working conditions for women?
Alexandra Kollantai
Who was the first White leader to resist Bolshevik rule militarily?
Kerensky
Name of decree made on 5th Sept 1918.
Decree on Red Terror
Name three key industries that were immediately nationalised.
metal, textile, mining, cement, electrical, tanning.
The trigger for the Kronstadt crisis was when…
the Communists imposed martial law following workers strikers in Petrograd and Moscow in March 1921.
Complete this quote; “Loot…
the looters”
1.What other war were the Communists fighting during the Civil War and how and when did it end?
The Soviet-Polish War which ended with the Treaty of Riga in 1920
Give the date and name of the decree to manage 'counter-revolution'.
Dec 19th 1917, Lenin issues the Decree on the formation of the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Cheka)
Name three of the four purposes of WC policies.
Provide cities with food; Prevent further economic failure; Bolster industrial production; Provide for the Red Army
Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick describes the uprising as…
‘a symbolic parting of the ways between the working class and the Bolshevik Party.”
1.How many decrees were introduced in the first few months of Bolshevik rule?
116
Give three reasons for the failures of the Whites?
Lack of motivation of troops; poor leadership; disputes and lack of cohesive strategy between White groups; inferior propaganda; inability to consolidate victories (such as establishment of successful alternative governments).
Complete. this quote and name the author. “We stand for...
...organised terror, terror being indispensable during times of revolution. Felix Dzerzhinsky
According to Trotsky, “A deserter from labour is…
...as contemptible and despicable as a deserter from a battlefield.”
Summarise NEP policies. (2 points)
Replaced food requisitioning with a tax-in-kind and legalised the return of small-scale private trade and manufacturing.
What was the name given to policies using 'bourgeois specialists' to control industry and when was it implemented?
State Capitalism, April 1918.
1.Name the four reasons that the Red Army was successful in the Civil War.
1. Geography; 2. Ideology; 3. Trotsky’s Leadership; 4. Failure’s of the White Armies
Number of suspects executed without trial by the Cheka and number of concentration camps they established.
140,000 executions and 84 concentration camps (up to 50k prisoners at a time)
Enumerate the changes in production of grain between 1917 and 1921.
Cultivated land down by 40%. Harvests were only 37% of usual yield (amount of grain)
Complete Lenin's quote. 'The real meaning of NEP is that we have met a great
defeat in our plans and that we are now making a strategic retreat.'