Political Strand Lenin
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- Political
- Lenin
- October Revolution 1917
- Small party of 300,000
- Represented interests of workers- portrayed as a mass uprising of workers (limited support needed force)
- Opposition Left: SRs+Mensheviks who hoped to share gov.- call for socialist coalition
- Constituent Assembly Jan 1918: Bolsheviks: 175 seats- 9m votes, SRs: 410 seats- 21m votes
- Lenin dissolved: Instrument of bourgeouise
- Constituent Assembly Jan 1918: Bolsheviks: 175 seats- 9m votes, SRs: 410 seats- 21m votes
- Creation of a one party state
- March 1918: renamed communist party
- 1921: all other parties banned
- First 3 months of April 1921, 5000 Mensheviks arrested
- The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
- End to involvement in WW1, peace conducted through treaty
- Russia lost control of baltic states
- Seen as a humiliation for military leaders: wanted to overthrow regime and reject the treaty
- Allied powers of BR, FR, USA & JA were keen to keep Russia in WW1 and willing to provide arms, money and trrops to those who would ensure Russia rejoined
- Seen as a humiliation for military leaders: wanted to overthrow regime and reject the treaty
- Russian Civil War 1918-21
- How did they win?
- Organised, whites only united on desire to get rid of reds: cooperation limited, corruption and inefficiency
- Trotsky: commissar for war: introduced conscription and extended gov. direction to spread resources (war communism)
- Results of civil war: state highly centralised, power in hands of gov. and party, use of terror against political opponents, reinforced militaristic values
- How did they win?
- 10th party congress 1921
- Membership in 1917: 300,000, by 1921: 730,000
- 1924: 1 million
- Ban on formation of factions
- Membership in 1917: 300,000, by 1921: 730,000
- One party state
- Sovnrakom
- Council of peoples commissars, top government ministers, made key decisions and orders, 20 members, elected by Central Executive Committee
- Central Executive Committee
- Larger group elected by congress of soviets-oversaw work of government and administration
- All Russian Congress of Soviets
- Supreme law making body "highly representative"
- Polituro
- 7-9 leading members of party, chosen by central committee, made key decisions and took over from larger CC, met daily and became more important than sovnarkom
- Central Committee
- 30-40 members, chosen by party congress- made decisions on policy
- Party congress
- Representative of local branches-discussed general programmes
- Local party branches
- Headed by a party secretary
- October Revolution 1917
- Democratic socialism
- Soviets used as bodies that represented workers at local levels- wishes expressed through structure of representative organisations, decisions then made in interests of people
- Nomenklatura: list of approved party members
- Use of terror
- Cheka headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky Dec 1917 to deal with counter revolutionaries
- between 1917-1923: responsible for assassination of 200,000 people
- 40,000 members in December to 250,000 by 1921
- Lenin
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