Historians AOS2
Quotes AOS2
Dates AOS2
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100

"The fact that the [...] took charge of a disintegrating society because it was disintegrating is a fact of great importance, which must be born in mind in analysing their subsequent actions"

Alec Nove, Bolsheviks during Civil War

100

"intolerably severe are the terms of peace"

Lenin, treaty of Brest-Litovsk

100

May 1918 - 1922

Russian Civil War

100

7 million

Starved during the Civil War

200

"The Bolshevik regime was fashioned by the exigencies of [...]. Half measures are of little value in such times of crisis."

Martin McCauley, The Civil War, on Bolshevik War Communism

200

"We are barely hanging on" "[Russia is] a man beaten within an inch of his life"

Lenin on the state of Soviet Russia in the Civil War

200

5/6th January 1918

Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly

200

70% / 50%

70% of people in Petrograd and 50% of the people in Moscow had left for the countryside by 1920

300

"If War Communism was a leap into socialism then [...] was a leap out of socialism"

Martin McCauley, The New Economic Policy (NEP)

300

"send grain, grain, and more grain!!" "to get bread - that is the basis of socialism today"

Lenin on grain requisitioning during the Civil War
300

3rd March 1918

Sovnarkom accepts the treaty of Brest-Litovsk

300

34% / 32% / 3 billion / 89% / 54% / 26%

In the treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russia lost 34% of its European population, 32% of its farmland including the Ukraine, 3 billion roubles in war reps, lost 89% of iron and coal reserves, 54% of industry, and 26% of railways

400

"The more we learn about the establishment of the Soviet regime, the more obvious it becomes that Lenin and his colleagues were correct in assuming that power would not fall into and remain in their hands"

Robert Service on Soviet Terror and War Communism

400

"Everything for the front!" "The Soviet republic must have an army that can fight battles and win"

Trotsky on the policies of War Communism for fueling the Civil War

400

8 March 1921

start of the New Economic Policy

400

100k / 40k / 150k / 140k

Admiral Kolchak's troops at Eastern front / Czech Legion troops / General Denkin troops in Ukraine / Troops sent by America and Japan

500

"The [...] of 1917 was thus part of a chain whose other links consisted of the failure of basic institutions. The failure at each link intensified the failure at all the others"

Lars Lih, food supply crisis

500

"we stand for organised terror - this should be frankly stated"

Felix Dzerzhinsky, on Cheka terror in Civil War

500

1st January 1918

Assassination attempt on Lenin

500

for every [...] 4 more where [...]

For every factory nationalised under the Worker's Control Decree 4 more where nationalised without government permission

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