12. establishment of bolshevik gov Flashcards
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lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: when did lenin return to Russia from Switzerland
3 april 1917
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was lenin helped by germans
they expected him to seize power and make peace
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: where were april theses published
Pravda`
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did april theses demand
- power transferred to soviets
- war brought to an immediate end
- all land taken over by state and reallocated to peasants by local soviets
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what have april theses been summed up as
demand for peace bread and land
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did ‘all power to soviets mean’
lenin stressed a policy of non cooperation with PG
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin want all power to soviets
he argued that Russian middle class was too weak to carry through a full bourgeois revolution and that to allow the middle classes to continue in power was to hold inevitable proletarian revolution back
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did some Bolsheviks fear
that lenin had grown out of touch and that his radical proposals would do more harm than good
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what allegations were there about lenin
that he was in the pay of the germans
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did the mensheviks fear about lenin
that he would undermine what they had been doing and by stirring up discontent would provoke a right wing reaction
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did some think lenins call to oppose PG was unrealistic
Bolsheviks had only 26000 members and were still in minority among socialists
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were Bolsheviks divided amongst themselves
over whether to cooperate with PG or not
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what did lenin claim credit for in his speeches that gradually built up support for him
claimed credit for what was already happening, not least peasants seizure of land
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how had lenin won over majority of central committee of Bolshevik party by end of april
by sheer force of personality
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did winning wider support require more persistence
when first all Russian congress of sovviets met in Petrograd on 3 june it passed a cote of confidence In PG
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenin win a key adherence at beginning of july
when Trotsky decided to throw his full weight behind Bolshevik cause
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: kerenskys determination to do what played into Bolshevik hands
continue the war
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what threatened to undermine some of Bolsheviks good work
frustrations and disappointments of workers, soldiers and sailors that boiled over in unctontolled rioting in Petrograd during july days
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why were warrants for the arrest of Bolsheviks issued
blamed for stirring up troubles in july days
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: how did soviet newspaper Izvestia denounce role of Bolsheviks over july days
claimed lenin was working in pay of germans and against russias best interests
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: what happened to Bolshevik propaganda and Pravda following july days
propaganda burned and Pravda offices closed
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did lenins reputation fall after july days
for fleeing rather than leading
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why did it seem Bolshevik moment had passed on 8 july
Kerensky replaced prince Lvov as PM
lenins return and growth of Bolshevik support: why was Bolsheviks cause saved by kornilov affair
Bolsheviks released from gaols and soldiers, sailors and workers again took to streets
