Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Red terror
- Reasons
- the only way to deal with a
country crippled by WW1 and
confronted by civil war
- Intrinsic to
Marxism-Leninism, method
of terror is scientific and
unchallengable
- Lenin had always
planned on using terror
- Cheka
- Given unlimited powers
of arrest, detention and
torture
- Control over Russian
people, created
subserviance and
conformity
- Led by Felix Dzezhinksky
- Murder of Romanovs
- Murdering Tsar and his
family disallowed any
chance of a tsarist state
ever returning
- Bolsheviks gained full
control over Russia without
threat of Nicholas returning
- Lenin intended
assassination as an act of
revenge against the Tsar
for the pre-1919 world
- Trotsky's role
- Appointed Commissar for
War, used power to end
independence of trade
unions
- Workers bought under military
control, could not negotiate pay
or conditions, could be
severely punished for poor
workmanship
- Created Red Army which enforced
authority over population, gave
orders from military train. Turned
collection of Red Guard veterans
into an army of 3 million men