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FACTORS THAT HELPED LENIN IMPOSE COMMUNIST CONTROL IN RUSSIA 1917-1924 …

- - - - on 16 July the Tsar and his family were taken to the basement of the house in which they were prisoners and were shot. . Eleven members of the royal household were murdered: the Tsar, his wife Alexandra, his son and four daughters, the family doctor and three servants. The bodies were then taken to a mine where they were soaked in acid and burned
        
        an American, Anna Anderson, did in later years claim she was Nicholas' daughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and that she had escaped from Russia. In 1991 a burial pit in a bog was found in Ekaterinburg containing several bodies. The remains were examined using DNA tests and dental records and in 1994 the conclusions were made public
        
        The bodies were those of the Tsar, his wife and three of their daughters. They had been shot and bayoneted. The report appeared to confirm most of the accepted accounts of the murders. There was no sign of the bodies of the Tsar's son, Alexis, and one of his daughters, Maria. Later, however, charred remains were found and identified as the missing son and daughter. The room where the assassination took place.
- - - - He would pay whatever price to give the people what they wanted, which was peace and no more participation in the war
    - - The terms were very harsh
        
        Russia lost a huge amount of land on the Western Frontier (contained 1/6 of the population of over 60 million people)
        
        Russia lost 3/4 of their iron and coal supply
        
        Russia lost over 1/4 of farm land - some of it the best in Russia
        
        Massive cash territory.
- - - - the result was that there were 20,000 casualties, not to mention that the leaders of the revolt were executed
        
        Lenin knew that an immense amount of Russia's power was held in its navy and if he lost the navy he could turn out like Nicholas the II
- - - - They wanted to keep the population under control
  - - - In 1921, over 4 million Russians starved to death
  - - - the Church owned a lot of the land
        
        The Bolsheviks wanted to give the land to the peasants
      - The clergy and nobles were victims - many were executed