Lenin Flashcards
(11 cards)
What was the basis of Marxism Leninism
The Dictatorship of the proletariat, a central committee would rule for the workers until the workers were ready to take over themselves
How did Lenin sacrifice ideology for his own gain to maintain power?
NEP - temporary capitalism to reduce famine and end war communism as to protect the Bolsheviks power after unrest caused by grain requisition
Who ran the sovnarkom
Teh Bolsheviks dominated the sovnarkom
What was a sovnarkom
Peoples council of commissars, the communist version of the council of ministers set up by Lenin
What was the politburo
A minority number of elites elected by the sovnarkom, they were a small group of cadres supposedly democratically elected.
How did Lenin use censorship
The abolishment of press freedom to remove ‘counter revolutionaries’ meant people could not oppose the Bolshevik party publicly.
1921 - Agitprop set up to put all aspects of Russian life under surveillance and promote idealistic image of Russian life
What was Pravda
Communist newspaper led by the central committee to publish propaganda
What was Lenin’s cult of personality
God like image, his body was embalmed and put in a morsoleum
How was Lenin opposed
Lost the November election in 1917, claimed they were rigged and then took power anyway
Trotsky opposed the signings of Brest Litovsk but Lenin put rest to the opposition by claiming the war would be over soon
