Lenin to Stalin

Question 1

Ending The War 1918: why was ending the war such a challenge for the Bolsheviks

-On what terms did the Bolsheviks view necessary for a revolution to break out?

-why did Trotsky keep negotiations for so long ?

-Why did Trotsky want revolution in the west

Answer 1

-The bolsheviks believed that a revolution could not take place without the help of workers’ support in advanced capitalist societies.They believed that the war would collapse into a series of civil wars that would trigger a workers’ revolution, following the example of Russia

-However, it failed to materialise

Trosky discussed terms with Germany and kept negotiations in hopes that a revolution would break out in Austria or Germany
-Trotsky believed that a new workers’ state would not be able to hold out against the pressures of a hostile capitalist world unless socialist revolutions quickly took hold in other countries as well.
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Question 2

What did Lenin decide on the War

Answer 2

Pragmatic approach, he wanted peace. this was because he wanted to consolidate peace for the regime

Question 3

What were the harsh terms that Germany proposed

Answer 3

Land

Question 4

Who opposed the Treaty

Answer 4

Bukhari and left communists as they believed that the war would act as a catalyst for social revoltuion in Europe

Question 5

How far did the Germans advance

Answer 5

Into Ukraine, Lenin feared that they would go into Petrograd

Question 6

Ideological justifications for marinating the new state VS establishing Bolshevik control

Answer 6

Ideological:
Wanting to remove private enterprise and capitalism
Wanting to establish a proletariat dictatorship by removing counter revolutionaries
Establishing Bolshevik control
- cheka
- repression and control under civil war
-Dissmisal of constituent assembly
- agriculture and industry controlled by central gov, to remove capatalism

Question 7

What were the Consequences of the Treaty

Answer 7

Alot of Russians had seen this and shameful
Gave reason for people to join anti-Bolshevik forces which led to a civil war
Ptriotic russians
The tsar’s human industrial and agricultural resources had gone
indeed, no other political party would have acceded to such terms

Question 8

Was Lenin more concerned with Pragmatism or Ideology

Question 9

The Reds

Question 10

The Whites

Question 11

The Greens

Question 12

Reasons why did the Reds win

Question 13

Reasons for why the Whites lost

Question 14

What was War communism

Question 15

Was War communism ideology or economic necessity

Question 16

What was the Cheka

Question 17

The role of the Terror

Question 18

The red Terror

Question 19

Ideological justifications for marinating the new state VS establishing Bolshevik control

Answer 19

Ideological:
Wanting to remove private enterprise and capitalism
Wanting to establish a proletariat dictatorship by removing counter revolutionaries
Establishing Bolshevik control
- cheka
- repression and control under civil war
-Dissmisal of constituent assembly
- agriculture and industry controlled by central gov, to remove capitalism