How did the Bolsheviks establish a one party state between 1917 and 1924

Question 1

What ways did Bolsheviks face opposition

Answer 1

• Other left wing groups who were denies a share of power e.g Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) or Mensheviks
• Groups on the right (Tsarist supporters) or liberals who represented middle class who feared lack of freedom
• Nationalists e.g Ukrainians and Poles

Question 2

What is the constituent Assembly

Answer 2

Parliament elected by the people of Russia

Question 3

What did Trotsky, Lenin’s closest associate say to the SR

Answer 3

“You have played out your role. Go where you belong: in the dustbin of history”

Question 4

What were the results of the Assembly

Answer 4

Not in Bolsheviks favour. SR emerged as largest party with over 21 million votes

Question 5

How did Lenin react to the SR winning

Answer 5

He dissolved the assembly after only one meeting and condemned it as an instrument of the bourgeoisie.

Question 6

What replaced the Assembly

Answer 6

All Russian Congress

Question 7

How did the SR lose all influence

Answer 7

They lost influence when they walked out of Government in 1918 in protest for the Bolshevik decision to pull out of war

Question 8

When were other parties banned

Answer 8

1921

Question 9

What did Lenin do in March 1918

Answer 9

renamed Bolshevik party to the Communist Party

Question 10

What did Lenin declare about Mensheviks and SR’s

Answer 10

“The place for the Mensheviks and the SRs is in prison”

Question 11

What did the Treaty of Brest- Litovsk 1918 do

Answer 11

Took Russia out of the war but lost control over the baltic states e.g latvia and finland