The Red Terror Flashcards
(22 cards)
when Lenin needed a much better base of support to enable his economic and social systems to work what did he rely on?
• Coercion
What were the Bolsheviks unapologetic about?
• extreme use of force as they believed it was a necessary evil for Russia’s continuation and success
What happened in August 1918?
• Lennon was wounded in an assassination attempt
What was Lennon’s assassination attempt to use for by the Cheka?
• as an excuse for the checker to launch what became known as the red terror
Who was the red terror aimed at?
• political enemies
What did the Cheka do to communist political enemies?
• they rounded up remaining social revolutionaries. Mensheviks Anarchists and any considerable threats
• somewhere arrested and imprisoned
• but they were often shot
What was the estimated number of people murdered between 1918 to 1920 as of the red terror?
• half a million
What were the checker also given permission to do?
• to carry our class warfare
• They said it was because the bourgeoisie was guilty of plotting counter revolutions
how was the Chekas excuse for carrying out class warfare a lie?
• most of the victims of the intense campaign imprisonment arrest and executions, came from all levels of society, including work, has peasants from all ages
• children included
What prison system did the Bolshevik set up?
• The system of concentration and labor camps
• They weren’t as orderly as Stalin
What was terror to class warfare?
•Integral
What came from the famine of 1921?
• the outbreak of peasant revolts
How many revolves did the checka report across Russia in February 1921?
• 155
Which was the most serious rising of 1920-1921
• the rule area of Tambov province
• it was known as the Tambov
What happened in the takbov revolt?
• a 70,000 man peasant army led by Alexander Antonov rose up against government forces when the grain requisitioning squad arrived in the province, demanding requisitions that a time when there was almost no grain reserves left
Who are the peasants joined by?
• some members of green forces
How many red army troops were deployed to deal with the uprising?
• 100,000
How did the red army and the tambov revolt?
• red army chips poured into Tambov province and brutally destroyed whole villages
• poison gas was used to deal with those who hid in forest
What was the Kronstadt rising?
• the uprising of 30,000 Kronstadt saliors against the Bolsheviks
• they were previously the most loyal supporters of the October/November revolution
• they sent a manifesto to Nan demanding an end to one party communist rule, and March 1921
• they demanded genuine, democracy, and civil rights
• they use the slogan ‘Soviets without Bolsheviks’
• expressed their support for other socialist parties
Why did the Kronstadt rising happen?
• grain requisition
• the political oppression of the Bolsheviks; as they banned the parties and murdered oppositional forces
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How did the Bolsheviks and the Kronstadt rising?
•Trotsky and the Red Army, under orders from Lenin, launched a brutal attack on Kronstadt
• The ring leaders of the revolt were shot while 15,000 rebels were taken in prisoner Elmo was sent to a labour camps on the White Sea known as gulags
•After intense fighting, the rebellion was crushed.
What was Gosplan?
• Estate general planning commission from 1921 which helped coordinate economic development alongside the Veshenka
