Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917 1953 Quick Questions Bolshevik consolidation, 1918-1924 The consolidation of the communist dictatorship The Civil War Economic and social developments Foreign relations and attitudes of foreign powers
(BASED ON CHAPTER 5 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. Who did the Bolsheviks claim they were acting for? 2. Who are the proletariat? 3. Explain what liberal democracy was. 4. Lenin was always known for what? 5. When were the elections? 6. What were the results? 7. How can these results be explained? 8. What happened to the Constituent Assembly? 9. How did this make Lenin and the Bolsheviks look? 10. Who and why were people concerned about lenin? 11. What was the decree on press? When was it? 12. What happened in July 1918? 13. What happened in 1921? 14. Why was Lenin unconcerned about ending Russia s involvement in WW1? 15. What did Bukharin lead? 16. How did Trotsky do? 17. What was the treaty called that ended Russia s involvement? 18. What did Russia lose? 19. What was the treaties nickname? 20. Who disagreed with the treaty? 21. How did Lenin get his way? 22. Who publically opposed Lenin in the treaty? 23. Why was the treaty important? 24. What did the Bolsheviks change their name to in 1918? 25. Name four of the decrees passed by the Sovarkon in 1918? 26. What was the red army? Who was in charge of it? 27. What was socialisation of the land? 28. What happened in July 1918? 29. Explain how it was not democratic in nature. 30. What principle was established? 31. What did the leading members of the Bolshevik party disagree on?
(BASED ON CHAPTER 6 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. When did the civil war begin? 2. Why was it a complicated affair? 3. What were the main reasons for the war? 4. Who were the whites? 5. Who led their army? 6. What did the right want? 7. What did the left want? 8. When was Lenin s first attempted assassination? 9. Where was the new capital? Why was it moved? 10. What area of land of Russia did the Bolsheviks control? 11. Why was that dangerous? 12. Where did most of the fighting take place? 13. Who were the Green army? 14. What were the consequences of the Civil war? 15. Who was Tukhachevsky? 16. What was the Treaty of Riga? 17. Why was Trotsky so important in the Reds victory? What skills did he have? 18. Did he actually make a difference? Make a table YES/No uses both pages 48-49. 19. When did the Tsar abdicate? When was he murdered? 20. Why could the Tsar have been a problem for the Reds? 21. What were the reasons for the Red army victory? 22. What was the most important reason? Why? 23. What was Lenin natural way to govern? 24. What was the Orgburo? When was it set up? 25. How many Party members fought in the Red army? 26. How did the Communist Party appear? 27. What was the role of the Party s Central Committee? 28. What did the Politburo replace? Who were the original key members in 1919? 29. How had the Civil war impacted on the way the Communist state was ran? 30. Why was central control now so essential? 31. By the end of 1922 what was formally established? 32. What was Stalin s new role? Why was it of great importance?
(BASED ON CHAPTER 7 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. What did Lenin promise when he came into power? 2. What was state capitalism? 3. Why was it needed? 4. What was the Decree on Land? 5. What was the Decree on Workers Control of Factories? 6. To gain greater state control over the economy what did the Bolsheviks establish? 7. What were the problems with state capitalism? 8. What were the consequences of the civil war the economy? 9. How did the peasants survive? 10. How did the urban dwellers survive? 11. Why did all the supplies top the cities slow down? 12. What was the bread ration in 1918? 13. What percentage of wheat consumed was from the black market? 14. What was the black market? 15. Who were sackmen? What was their purpose? 16. Where did the workers go when they left the cities? 17. What % of the workers left Petrograd in April 1918? 18. How much did the urban population fall between 1917-1919? 19. How many people died in the civil war total? 20. How many dies from actual fighting? 21. What disease spread widely in 1920? 22. Who fared the worst in Russia at this time? Why? 23. What kinds of ill-discipline was apparent while the Civil war raged on? 24. What minority group suffered the most? 25. What was war communism? 26. Who opposed it? 27. What concepts were forgotten now? 28. What did the Bolsheviks see Russia as now? 29. What was set up in May 1918? 30. What was encouraged from 1918? 31. What was a collective farm? 32. What was a kulak? What were they labelled as? 33. Why was the system ineffective? 34. Why was the Cheka needed? 35. What areas of the economy were nationalised? Create a small timeline, 36. Why were managers needed? 37. What measures were introduced to maintain discipline? 38. What were the effects of war communism? 39. What does coercion mean? 40. What was Red Terror? 41. Who did it target? 42. How did Lenin justify using terror? 43. How many uprising were there in February 1921? 44. What happened in Tambov province? 45. What was the result of the uprising? 46. Who were the Kronstadt sailors?
47. Why did they rise against the Bolsheviks? 48. Who was sent to quell the rebellion? What was the result of his deployment? 49. What were the sailors known as? 50. What division appeared in the party itself now? 51. Who was completely against War communism? 52. What was GOSPLAN? 53. When was it announced? 54. What was NEP? 55. How did some Bolsheviks see it? 56. Who were the Nepmen? 57. How much of the trade were Nepmen responsible for? 58. What did Trotsky mean by the scissor crisis? 59. What re-emerged again? 60. How did Lenin see the NEP? 61. What did Lenin compare it to? 62. What did Lenin ban in 1921? Why? 63. What groups were banned in 1921? 64. What is a show trial? 65. Why was the GPU? 66. What was the GLAVIT? What impact did it have? 67. What was the Union of the Militant Godless and what did they do? 68. What system was introduced in 1923? What was it? 69. How did this system instil more control?
(BASED ON CHAPTER 8 IN AQA TEXTBOOK) 1. What was stlains new role? Why was it of great importance?