Lenin Flashcards
(21 cards)
Lenin returns
April theses
Bread peace land
Germany let him- cause trouble
All power to soviet
July days
1917
Kerensky
Faked info against Lenin
K becomes pm
Kornilov affair
Kerensky appointed Kornilov as head of army
Kornilov wanted own gov
Cossack troops ordered to match on Petrograd
Scared kerensky
Armed red guard
Railway workers stopped them- never arrived
Bolshevik take over
Saviours of Petrograd Kerensky hated Smolny institute 7th Nov no secret Lenin in Finland says seize power Bridges, telegraph office, stations, power station Little resistance K left city helped by us Storm winter palace Aurora 9pm Women's death battalion No resistance
Issues w prov gov
War
Land
Dual power
Bolshevik power
Land to peasants Food go to cities Cheka Constituent assembly Treaty of Brest litovsk
Treaty of Brest litovsk
March 1918
V harsh
Ukraine
1/6 of pop
74% of iron ore and coal
Bolshevik party rename
Communists
Civil war
Geography Aims Leadership Unity Foreign intervention
Trotsky
Train!!!
Tsar death
Killed in a room
1918
War communism
Control of industry
No trade unions
Strict discipline on workers
Cheka on peasants
Grain requisitioning
Terror
Cheka
Red terror
War communism results
1913- 80m tonnes of grain
1921- 37.6m
Coal
1913- 29 m tonnes
1921- 9m tonnes
Economy in ruins
Production fallen
Burglary
Agricultural collapse
Opposition to lenin’s policies
Workers opposition Higher wages No mass arrests More food Workers control of industry
Kronstadt naval base March 1921 Uprising 20,000 killed Sailors executed and sent to labour camps
NEP main features
Grain requisitioning stopped
Peasants have fixed amount to give to gov per year
Any surplus sold on open market
Traders buy and sell goods
Smaller factories returned to former owners
Larger industries under state control
NEP what?
New economic policy
1921
NEP Included
Electrification
Foreign trade
Not kulaks or nepmen
Success of NEP and failures
Till 1928 More prosperous Russia Prices too high for peasants Unwilling to sell grain for money Unemployment still a problem Angry w nepmen Massive investment needed to make Russia less backward
NEP figures
37.6 m tonnes 1921
73.3 m 1928
Grain
9 m tonnes 1921
35 m tonnes 1928
Coal
Communist changes for Russia
Equality of women Crèches, marriage and divorce easy, abortion on demand, sexual relations Religion- banned Education- increased, extended Art- experimentation
Lenin death
Jan 1924
Strokes
Brain shrunk
Thousands lined street
