Red terror

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Mind Map on Red terror, created by Caitlin Lunn on 21/05/2014.
Caitlin Lunn
Mind Map by Caitlin Lunn, updated more than 1 year ago
Caitlin Lunn
Created by Caitlin Lunn over 11 years ago
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Red terror
  1. Reasons
    1. the only way to deal with a country crippled by WW1 and confronted by civil war
      1. Intrinsic to Marxism-Leninism, method of terror is scientific and unchallengable
        1. Lenin had always planned on using terror
        2. Cheka
          1. Given unlimited powers of arrest, detention and torture
            1. Control over Russian people, created subserviance and conformity
              1. Led by Felix Dzezhinksky
              2. Murder of Romanovs
                1. Murdering Tsar and his family disallowed any chance of a tsarist state ever returning
                  1. Bolsheviks gained full control over Russia without threat of Nicholas returning
                    1. Lenin intended assassination as an act of revenge against the Tsar for the pre-1919 world
                    2. Trotsky's role
                      1. Appointed Commissar for War, used power to end independence of trade unions
                        1. Workers bought under military control, could not negotiate pay or conditions, could be severely punished for poor workmanship
                          1. 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
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