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How did the Bolsheviks keep power (Cheka (Red terror (opposition grew),…
How did the Bolsheviks keep power
first actions
Max 8h day and 48h week for workers
employment insurance for women
classes were abolished
women declared equal to men
banned opposition
liberal party
non-Bolshevik newspapers
put factories under the control of the workers' comittee
land was taken away from Tsar and landlords
Cheka
new secret police
arrested people considered dangerous
Red terror
opposition grew
sent where peasants did not want to hand in food
became brutal
Lenin sent Trotsky to negotiate for peace with Germans
crashed the socialist revolutionaries(they occupied more seats that Bolsheviks in the Assembly
war communism
food was rationed
peasants refused to produce because they were starving so cheka was sent and food production decrease
cities were in chaos because food did not arrive