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Lenin's goverment of Russia 1917-24 (Konstrat rising (The constrat…
Lenin's goverment of Russia 1917-24
Bolshevik in power
Lenin had taken power on the soviets behalf and forced that the sovarkom had been pushed to goven by the soviets.and claimed it took power from the people but truely only who lenin ellected
When Bolshivks took power they had no idea what to do with it as they spent time revolutionisng but not prepareing
Bolshiviks therefore held the power not the soviets as the sovnarka was made mostly of the bolshiviks, and others were extemly repressed due to the voteing system
Lenin's decrees
aims- he wanted a politainan aconomy, controle social syste, unable to put these into place immidatly in resosonce had to settle for minner decrees
Russian problems- shortage of raw matrirals, inflation, falied transport system, hunger, with ukraine leaving food christist worsened.
Decree on peace- Put out a ploicy for peace in Euope by taking action first against Germany
Decree on Land- Toldd people what the problem was as peasents overthow landlawds
Decree on workers- Made it so the workers commites did not run factoies alone and workers would gain instructions without ould stricktness
Vesenka - pussed on aheeme of direction of the economy leading to nationalisation of railways, forign debts councelled,transport system failed
Konstrat rising
The constrat manifesto
These threatend the Bolshiviks reign as it was made from there traditional supporters and turned back to promis of revoluton
grevences to the goverment included new elections freedom, trade unions on more communism ending food rationaling removing commisars from the factories endedning war communusm
The rising crushed
demarneds increased from the workers leading to dispachal of the red army with 60,000 men workers defeated and dispached
The worker oppostion
As long as uprising wascontained to the peasentry bolshiviks were able to contain the problem but 2 bolshiviks led the workers opposition
this led to strike in major towns including petrograd, thousands of petrgrad workers hed to the naval base to demenstate for freedom
The arfter math
The cheka hunted down the rebels and killed them , however thistold lenin his policys were to harsh to be implomented for longer time therefore had to introduce NEP for russia to get back n ts feet
lenins war comunism was not working due to poor outcomeas and leading to upriseing led to widespead bolshivik upriseing in 1920-1
Dissolution of consititant assembely
Lenin justifide this by saying Bolshiviks were the peoples will shoed by the revolution
MEmbers of his partey related this to bloody sunday and had little support from forign allies
Lenin had no faith in demicratic ellections and in elections SR's htwice as many votes,leading to him disolving the assembly at gun point by the red gaurd
Russian civil War
Reasons for the civil war
Greens and whites, belived they didn't want the bulshiviks and the whites wanted this as well
War about food as there was a breakdown of supplys after the war and large areas of russias agriculture was signed away in the brest-liovsk treaty
Acounter revolution would be harder to controle than a civil war as only a minority would be associated
THe bolshiviks desolving consitituant assemby showed they were unwilling to share power
Lenin wanted civil war as he was convinced he would win as he had central power, and wanted this to illiminate opponents
How the war was won
Troskeys role
all major battles took place around railways as whites saw this as well
Reds where also brutal as they would destroy comunitys surrounding white support however this was done by both sides making the effect less significant
Railways were the means of moving troops fast allowing them to be effient and respond fast to whites
The reds also had morale as they had the purpose of defending russia unlike the whites who had no clear aim and they were expirenced as revolution comes out of war
key straigy of defending railways and lines of support and deny whites to unite in any large gathering and prevent whites from getting supplys
Red strenghts
Reds had controle of the westen areas of russia allowing them to stay supplyed
Held areas of industry output therefore not relying on forign aid for help
Had central controle of Petrograd and Moscow as well as most of the railway network
Red army was led by Trosky
White weaknesses
Unwilling to sacrific self interests for the common goal of deafeting bolshivks
They were to widly scattered due to russias geography not allowing them to join
Various white armeys foeught detached from each ofthe as they ahd a disunited aim
To reliant of forign aid and when they were cut of war quickly ended
Lacked a leader such as lenin or troskey
The wars end- the war was not declaired over but sizzled out as whites relised they could not win and had a loss of support
Forign intervention
Lenin's methos of controle
The red terror
The cheka
murding the Romonov family
THe class war
Labour camps
The Army
Conscription
Crushing trade unions
NEP
Ban on factionalsim
ment that all small groups inside the bolshiviks would come to an end so lenin would be able to onrole the intirety of the partyand it would lead to imidiate expultion fromthe partey this would stop any critisms from the govcernment this also ment that other bolshivik parteys were now oulawed from russia
Bukharinas role
Bukharinas stood down as a opposton of trheNEP and became a supporter as peasents would sell their grain surplus solving the problem of famin and money would then be taken of them in the future
NEP's objectives
The NEP would stop requistionaling grain, relax controle, public markets set up, money reintoduced for trading
Lenin stressed this would only be temperary to improve Russia's economy
The real aim of the NEP was to face economic nessaryitys and belived they had to consolidate before pushing the revolution,
Nepmen were made who were people who benifited and became richer due to the new markets
Results of the NEP
The policys pushed by lenins NEP and factionalism showeed that it worked as grain harvest increased by 20 million tones and and advage wage doubled aswell lenins dbolshiviksm would keep autocratic power even thought there was a faliure to expand agriculturaly as well there was high unemplyment and the conditions of urban areas were still poor and still the state owned 85% of all industry
The nEP's main urgency was to meet there urgant need for food as war communism had not pushed peasents into produceing large scale quanity of Grain
War communism
Impact on Industry
Bolshiviks gained influence in factories due to removing trade unions, they imposed nationalism improvving production, all luxuries dienide to industrys only essentials, however conscription lowed number of workers, problem with hyperinflation but as mush it tightend it dint work only 10% of exports
Impact of agriculture
Grain requisioning
Goverment condemned all who did not allow them to take grain as opponents to the revolutioncheka sent to take grain
the kalaks targeted the most but still food situation worsened as they did not improve food output issue due to loss of areas of bultic
Famine
between poor harvests and requestioning of gain there was famine in the country side but was supressded by propaganda 10 million died of starvation
This is a series of harsh economic messuresknown as war communism as well all areas of soviet russia had to be controled due to the civil war
inforcing war comunism
Tambov rising
peasent armeies took regions of the countryside inresponce of war comunism but hunted down by red sympethisesrs leading to executions and shootings led to 20,000 men rising led to red army being detached
Treaty
Troskeys view
Troskey wanted wanted to make peace but wanted them to dely it within walks so that it could recover and give time for the allies to defeat Germany
LEft wing bolsheviks were highly nationalist and wanted to coninue the war
Bolshivik Tatics
Hindenburg ,germanys chief negotiator complained that lenin and troskey behaved like victors as they were international revolutionarys
Germany wee seriously considerering marching on petrograd which they were in stricking distance of
Troskey would yown loudly within talks and leave early delying talks
Treaty included a large slice of teritory in west russia in baltic areas , 386,00 miles of land, 3 billion roubles in repations of the war
Lenins view
Russia military exhastion made it impossible to fight effiectivly, if russia won the war it would regan lands but if loss would be under Germanys occupartion
Lenin wanted to make peace as Germany had been funding him personly to return into Russia and it was the main sourse of Bolshivik revenue
Reason for signing the treaty
Belived he would be able to regain territory as belived Germany would still loose the war and land would be left in chaos
they were international revolutionarys who belived after the war revolution would spread to westen europe
No choose as militaryly exahusted, had no defence against Germany and was at its will