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1.1 Lenin's Regime
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- 1What type of government was Russia up to 1917? What did it mean?An autocracy
Only one person was in complete power - 2Who?Tsar Nicholas II
- 3What was the only way of replacing the Tsarist government?A violent revolution
- 4Why was Lenin sent into exile? Who did he then join?Plotting against Tsar
Social Democratic Party - 5What did Marx forecast?Workers would stage a revolution against factory owners which would end class struggle
- 6What was the name of Lenin's 1900 pamphlet? What did he suggest in it?"What is to be done?"
Small number of dedicated revolutionaries would start the revolution - 7What did the Russian Social Democrats divide into in 1903?Bolsheviks (Lenin supporters)
Mensheviks (those who did not) - 8Where was Lenin when the revolution came in 1917?Switzerland
- 9What happened in Russia in 1917?Strikes and food riots began
Nicholas abdicated - 10What was Duma? What did they do?The Tzar's council
They elected "Provisional Government" and declared a republic - 11Who helped Lenin return to Russia? What did Lenin hope?Germans
He would undermine the Provisional Government - 12What was his April Theses aimed at?"All power to the soviets"
"Peace, Bread, Land" designed to appeal to soldiers, peasants and workers - 13Who backed Lenin?Leon Trotsky and Red Guards
- 14What day did Bolsheviks and Lenin choose to seize power?24 October
Day before Congress of Soviets was due to meet - 15Where did Red Guards take over? What did Lenin become?Winter Palace
(Provisional Government offices)
The new ruler of Russia - 16What did Lenin form?Politburo (Cabinet)
with Commissars (Ministers) - 17What was significant about this government?First Marxist government in history
- 18What 3 problems did they face?They had to end war with Germany
Set up a Marxist-style state
Hold onto power against opponents - 19What did the Bolsheviks sign in March 1918?Treaty of Brest Litovsk
- 20What did Communists do after Lenin was shot and injured in 1918?Launched reign of terror on their critics
- 21What occurred during it?New secret police, CHEKA, arrested and executed thousands
Tsar and his family were murdered at this time - 22Who were "The Whites" made up of?Tsarists, Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and others
- 23What did Lenin harshly impose?The economic system "War Communism"
- 24What did this mean? What did this cause?Red Guards went into country and seized grain from peasants without paying
Peasants stopped growing food causing famine in 1920 - 25How many died during the famine?Millions
- 26What did Lenin announce at 10th Party Congress?War Communism to be replaced by
New Economic Policy (NEP) - 27What had happened by 1928?Russian economy had recovered
- 28What was the country's name changed to in 1923?Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans (USSR)
- 29What did Lenin write before his death?Testament
He voiced his fears for the future of communist revolution and criticised Politburo members; mainly Stalin
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