Establisnment of one party Control

Question 1

What was as an alien concept to Lenin?

Answer 1

•Democracy observer in western liberal democracies such as Britain

Question 3

Why was Lenin and his colleagues against the idea of trying to compete for the votes of ordinary citizens?

Answer 3

•that idea meant effectively allowing diffrent cures to exist which belonged to an old class-ridden world
•Lenin was convinced that the establishment of a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ (the first step of true socialism) would require the active repression of “counter revolutionary elements”
•His thinking was driven by Marxist ideology

Question 4

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Question 5

Why did Lenin permit the election for a constituent assembly in November 1917?

Answer 5

•He previously attacked Kerensky for post poning elections

Question 6

How much of the votes and seats did the Bolsheviks achieve?

Answer 6

•24% (10 million)
•175 seats

Question 7

How much votes and seats did the Social revolutionaries win?

Answer 7

•53% of the vote (21 million)
•won 410 seats

Question 8

What did Lenin promptly declare after the Bolshevik loss in the elections?

Answer 8

•’we must not be decieved by the election figures, elections prove nothing’

Question 9

What happened to the constituent assembly after Lenin’s declaration denouncing the election?

Answer 9

•It was forcibly closed and never met again

Question 10

What happened when civilians demonstrated against this action?

Answer 10

•They were fired on and 12 were killed

Question 11

How did Lenin justify Bolshevik actions?

Answer 11

•Although such actions appear to contradict the Marxist ideological principle of ‘power to the people’
•in “state and revolution” Lenin had written the need for a strong party to provide for ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’ and the need to crush any bourgeoise attitudes or values that remained after the revolution