Lenin

Question 1

What decrees did the Sovnarkom introduce

Answer 1

Decree on peace, land and workers decree 1917(8hour working day)

Question 2

What happened in 1921 Party congress

Answer 2

war communism crisis introduced led to rebels/strikes Kronstadt mutiny and tambov peasants

Question 3

Civil war lead to…

Answer 3

Politburo to centralise and nomenklatura to create a bureaucratic government

Question 4

Facts on war communism 18-21

Answer 4

work compulsory, women worked in creches, Zhenotdel proposed legal abortion/contraception/divorce, schools requisition by army, Trotsky introduced literacy class for red army

Question 5

Facts on NEP 21-28

Answer 5

unemployment high, crèches closed women forced to work as prostitutes 39% urban workforce employed them, schools expanded 60% in school by 1928

Question 6

Cult

Answer 6

Profit willing to suffer

Question 7

Decrees for press?

Answer 7

1917 and glavlit introduced in 1922

Question 8

Church?

Answer 8

1918 separated church and state, land decree meant peasants could seize land from churches

Question 9

Propaganda in civil war

Answer 9

agit prop trains

Question 10

State capitalism

Answer 10

Industry centralised, more incentives for workers E.G.higher pay and managers

Question 11

Wat communism

Answer 11

Industry nationalised, grain requisitioning, 11 hour workday, led to victory, 1921 famine 6 million died

Question 12

NEP

Answer 12

Farmers would sell a market, small factories deionised, scissors crisis agriculture was fast industry was slow, corruption