Key Terms
Lenin's political youth organisation
When was the new Soviet Union created?
1922
Permanent revolution
What were the secret police that Stalin created?
the NKVD
What decree ended the war with Germany?
the Peace decree
Kulaks?
wealthy peasant farmers
What did the Bolsheviks sign to end the war with Germany?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenins death created a....in the Soviet state
power vacuum
What major event did Stalin organise between 1937-38?
Stalin used execution to get rid of his opponents. This was known as 'the Great Purge'
Trotsky believed in... causing a global revolution?
permanent revolution
Basis of Bolshevik ideology?
"Peace, bread and land"
in what time did the bolsheviks consolidate their power?
from 1917-1921
Who were some leading Bolshevik figures in the late 1920's?
Stalin, Bukharian, Kamenev and Zinoviev
How did Stalin aim to create global power?
through industrilsation and the 5 year plans
What did Russia lose to the ToBL?
its population, farming land and mines
What is the council of peoples commissars called?
Sovnarkom
Red terror?
Where the Bolsheviks executed thousands of their opponents
How did Stalin control membership within the CPSU?
Thorugh being the general secretary of the Orgburo
What does liquidation of kulaks refer to?
the eliminaton of kulaks through execution or imprisonment
what was the purpose of the 'united front'?
to join all workers
Democratic Centralism?
Fcationalism and debate based on intellectual argument rather than party loyalty
how did the Bolsheviks gain the support of peasents?
through the decree on land
What events allowed Stalin to consolidate his power in the early 1920's?
and the lenin legacy
What was revolution from above?
A communist organised rapid transformation of Soviet society
the comintern was...
a party that united communist parties from around the world