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Mind Map by willo118_murphy, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by willo118_murphy
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The making of a totalitarian state
- The consolidation of power
- The problems facing Lenin after the October revolution
- The Bolsheviks were not very popular.
They had support of only 1/4 of the
Russian electorate.
- Peasants were seizing land.
- Unemployment and inflation rising
- Russia was still fighting a war with
Germany, occupying forces controlled
most of Western Russia - German army
within 100 miles of Petrograd.
- The Bolsheviks were not very popular.
They had support of only 1/4 of the
Russian electorate.
- Forming a government
- Peace decree - took steps to end
the war with Germany.
- Decree of Land - all private and
now belonged to peasants.
Ultimately they wanted all
private land under their control
- Third decree - set up organisation of the
new government, the Sovnarkom, with
Lenin as chairman.
- The government closed
down newspapers which
were critical of them.
- Peace decree - took steps to end
the war with Germany.
- Ending the war
- This was a key slogan of their campaign "Peace,
bread, land!"
- They realised that the war
played a major part in the
Provisional Government's
downfall.
- They needed their resources
to fight internal enemies.
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Loss of territory and economic wealth
- Loss of 1/3 of the population and
agricultural land and 1/2 of industry.
- Once the war ended they annulled
the treaty - looking weak.
- Loss of territory and economic wealth
- This was a key slogan of their campaign "Peace,
bread, land!"
- The constituent assembly
- After the November elections, the
socialist revolutionary party became
the largest party in Russia
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- After the November elections, the
socialist revolutionary party became
the largest party in Russia
- The problems facing Lenin after the October revolution
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