Second Congress of Soviets
26-Oct-17
Sovnarkom
Soviet of People's Commissars
Decree promising self-determination to minorities
Nov-17
Set up of elected people's courts
Nov-17
Cheka
Dec-17
Bolshevik percentage in Constituent Assembly
24%
SR's percentage in Constituent Assembly
41%
Constituent Assembly locked and surrounded by Red Guard
Jan-18
Rosa Luxemburg
Lenin brought about "the dictatorship of the Communist Party
over the working classes
Opposition to end of WWI
Revolutionary War Group (Nikolai Bukharin)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
03-Mar-18
Effects of T. Brest-Litovsk
62 Million people
2 million kilometers square
1/3 agricultural produce
74% iron ore
Volunteer army by spring 1918
led by General Alekseev and Kornilov
Russian Civil War
(Czech Legion) March 1918
Capital moved to Moscow (hub of railway network)
Mar-18
Human loss of Russian Civil War
10 million
Use of propaganda CW
defenders of the Motherland & O.Figues: peasants were likelier to support
Vasenkha (Supreme Council of the National economy)
December 1918: control over industrial enterprises
Food Supplies Dictatorship
May-18
D. Christian
party emerged of civil war years militarised, brutalised and
mobilisation as alternative to capitalism
Tambov pesant revolt
August 1920 - 1921
70'000 peasant army
Kronstadt Salilors' Manifesto
Mar-21
New Economic Policy
10th Party Congress (August 1921)
Ban on Fractions
10th Party Congress (1921)
Effects NEP
cereal production rose 23%
factory production 200%
Scissors Crisis
1923
Fanny Kaplan assasination attempt on Lenin
30-Aug-18
Red Terror
R. Service: more a local-level than Soviet policy
Cheka renamed GPU
1922