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Methods used by Lenin to control Soviet Union - Coggle Diagram
Methods used by Lenin to control Soviet Union
legal system abolished and replaced with 'revolutionary justice'
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the Soviet authorities formally repealed all Tsarist legislation and established a socialist legal system
Incentives for Russian workers and peasants 'peace, bread and land' in order to build support
Lenin used propaganda
Lenin might have given land to show support or employment opportunities.
Terror- use of Cheka, secret police
Designed to seek out counter revolution
responsibility was to maintain Communist rule
He took this ideology from marxist and french revolution
they did not enforce the law but they were not bound by it either.
Lenin was always open to the idea of terror as a temporary measure
Opposition parties banned
Sailors- Kronstadt
Green army- peasants who the bolsheviks stole grain from. (Bolsheviks justified as war communism)
White army- liberals, socialist, Mensheviks, Czechoslovakian, tsar, allied forces.
'class warfare'- state-sanctioned violence against the burzhui (bourgeoisie or middle class)
class warfare - conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes
Central political control- Sovnarkon
was a government institution formed soon after the October Revolution during 1917.
Created in the Russian Republic, the council began forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).