Securing Power
What group did the Bolsheviks overthrow to take power in October 1917?
What is... Provisional Government
What was the Cheka?
what is the Secret anti-revolutionary police
State control of industry + grain requisition
what was War communism
one short-term/immediate consequence of Bolshevik rule.
Civil War
Who said: “All power to the Soviets”?
Lenin
What was the purpose of the Decree on Land?
What is.. Redistribute land to peasants
What was the purpose of the Red Terror?
what was ... to Eliminate political enemies
Economic failure of War Communism
Why was the NEP (New Economic Policy) introduced?
How did the revolution change class structure?
What is ... Nobility removed
“The Bolshevik Revolution was essentially a coup d’état.”
who is Richard Pipes
Why was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk important for consolidation?
what is... Ended war → allowed focus on internal control
Who were the Whites in the Civil War?
what is Anti-Bolshevik forces
How did War Communism help win the Civil War?
what is Supplied Red Army
one economic consequence of Bolshevik policies.
Industrial decline
The Bolsheviks relied on terror to maintain their rule.
Richard Pipes
What slogan did the Bolsheviks to secure support?
what is.. "Peace, Land, Bread”
How did the Civil War help consolidate Bolshevik power?
what is Eliminated opposition, strengthened control, consolidate power
Famine, unrest, economic collapse
What were the social impacts of War Communism?
We are revolutionaries, not politicians
Lenin
Trade space for time
Richard Crampton