Effect on Russia during the Civil War

Question 1

Why did Moscow replace Petrograd as Russia’s capital?

Answer 1

Petrograd was closer to Russia’s western frontier and more vulnerable to attack than Moscow

Question 2

What was the symbolic change of Petrograd to Moscow?

Answer 2

Change from a city built to open Russia up to the western world to a regime which believed itself superior to the world

Question 3

How many Party members fought for the Red Army?

Answer 3

over half a million

Question 4

When the Soviet bureaucracy grew enormously, by how many did the officials outnumber the workers?

Answer 4

By two to one

Question 5

As the Soviets bureaucracy outnumbered workers 2 to 1, what was suggested that this extension of government created?

Answer 5

a “dictatorship of the bureaucracy”

Question 6

How was the Party structure of the Bolshevik/Communist party democratic?

Answer 6

based on an annual congress . elected by the mass membership

Question 7

Although the Party structure was based on the annual congresses which was elected by mass membership, who were actual policies and decisions made by?

Answer 7

the Party’s Central Committee

Question 8

In 1919 what became the new, real centre for party policy?

Answer 8

Politburo