20 - Lenin And The Consolidation Of Bolshevik Authority Flashcards
What main issue did Bolsheviks face when consolidating authority?
They were a minority
What did Bolsheviks aspire to be the party of? What did they lack?
Party of the people
Mass support
What signed Treaty developed an increasing wide array of opposition?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What was Russia facing economically by spring 1918?
Collapse
What item wasn’t effectively reaching the cities? What did this cause for workers?
Grain
Hunger
What system was disrupted by the War? What item wasn’t effectively getting to the cities?
Transport system
Grain
What type of farming did peasants revert to as a result of land redistribution? What did they have little of to sell?
Subsistence farming
Surplus grain
Why did peasants have little reason to sell their limited grain? How did this become an issue?
There were few goods to exchange for it
Workers took control of the factories with no management plan
What did the factories’ shortage of raw materials lead to a decrease of? What item specifically?
Industrial output
Consumer goods
What erupted in 1918 as a result of food shortages? Why did workers flee the cities?
Food riots
To search for food
What did the workers’ search for food lead to a shortage of?
Labour in factories
Between what 2 groups was a civil war developing in the spring of 1918?
Bolshevik “Reds”
Non-Bolshevik “Whites”
What regime was at stake following the Reds’ and the Whites’ conflict?
Communism
What did Bolsheviks have to ensure the army was provided with? What did this lead to the development of?
Food and weapons
More centralised control system
What policy was adopted to control the economy and look after the army?
“War Communism”
