18 - The Bolshevik Government And The Suppression Of Opposition

Question 1

What did Lenin announce on the 25th October 1917? What Congress was introduced?

Answer 1

Seizure of power

All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Question 2

Who met on the 26th October 1917? Who did they meet with to end the “coup”?

Answer 2

Congress of Soviets

Socialists

Question 3

Who was left in control after Mensheviks and SRs left?

Answer 3

Bolsheviks and extreme SRs

Question 4

What did Lenin establish a political government of? What were they known as collectively?

Answer 4

Political commissars

Sovnarkom

Question 5

What role did Trotsky play in Sovnarkom?

Answer 5

Commissar of Foreign Affairs

Question 6

How could Commissars rule by? What reference wasn’t needed?

Answer 6

Without decree

Soviet reference

Question 7

What was Sovnarkom made up of primarily?

Answer 7

Bolsheviks

Question 8

What did The Decree on Peace call for?

Answer 8

End to war

Question 9

What did The Decree on Land call for?

Answer 9

Land to be property of the people

Question 10

What did The Decree on Workers’ Control call for?

Answer 10

Workers to have factory control

Question 11

What was abolished under Sovnarkom?

Answer 11

Titles and Ranks

Question 12

What 2 things were nationalised under Sovnarkom?

Answer 12

Banks and Churches

Question 13

How did early Bolshevik decrees seem in society? Which decree was especially popular?

Answer 13

Popular

Decree on Land

Question 14

What did the Decree on Land help peasants do?

Answer 14

Win peasant support from SRs

Question 15

What was most of Russia outside control of? What did the people call out for from Bolsheviks?

Answer 15

Bolsheviks control

New government

Question 16

What was the “new government” from the Bolsheviks meant to represent? What did Lenin prefer?

Answer 16

Socialism

One-party rule

Question 17

What type of warfare was encouraged? What campaign began?

Answer 17

Class warfare

Burzhui (anti-communism)

Question 18

What type of newspapers were closed?

Answer 18

Anti-Bolshevik papers

Question 19

What happened to many civil servants? Who replaced them?

Answer 19

Dismissed

Bolsheviks

Question 20

What was established in December 1917? What was this?

Answer 20

Cheka

Bolshevik secret police

Question 21

What 3 right-wing groups were arrested under Lenin?

Answer 21

SRs
Kadets
Mensheviks

Question 22

What did Bolshevik opponents centre on? Why did Lenin allow the election?

Answer 22

Constituent Assembly

Fear of opposition

Question 23

Who won most of the seats in the 1918 election? Who did this shock?

Answer 23

SRs

Lenin

Question 24

What did Lenin announce about the new assembly post-election?

Answer 24

The new assembly would be a bourgeoisie democracy

Question 25

When did the bourgeoisie democracy meet for the first time? What did Lenin decide?

Answer 25

5th January 1918

Bolsheviks would rule on behalf of the proletariats

Question 26

What does Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick suggest about the Bolsheviks’ one-party rule?

Answer 26

“One-party rule emerged as a historical accident”