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Bolshevik Consolidation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Moscow and provinces were defeated in piecemeal
        campaigns
      - Kerensky won very limited support for his attempted comeback – relying on Cossacks
    - - SRs harmed their own cause by walking out
      - isolated left-wing SRs departed
        (rather than remaining to fight) the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    - - the inability of moderates and radicals to work together was seen in the one-day Constituent Assembly,after which they had no forum in which to voice their views
      - moderates disagreed with both left and
        right
    - - with the Tsar under house-arrest; opponents tended to flee to non-Bolshevik areas to join opposition groups, but this kept them from the centre of power and led to disparate groupings and leaders.
- - - - Politburo- At the eighth Party Congress (March 1919) the Politburo was created, a five-man committee responsible for deciding and formulating policy.
        It included Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Kamenev and Krestinsky.
    - - The first Sovnarkom was formed in November 1917. The commissars, all of whom were Bolsheviks, were selected by the Bolshevik party’s central committee.
  - - - Workers Decree (established 8 hour day)
      - Social Insurance Decree (old age, health and unemployment benefits)
      - Press Decree (banned opposition press)
      - Decree on Peace (promised to end the war)
      - Decree on Land (abolished private ownership of land and legitimised peasant seizures)
    - - Rights of the People of Russia Decree (abolished titles and class ranks)
      - Nationality Decree (promised self-determination to the peoples of the former Russian empire)
      - Decree on Workers Control of Factories (gave workers the right to supervise management)
      - Judicial Decree (established a new legal system of elected peoples courts)
      - Decree to Outlaw Sex Discrimination (gave women equality with men and the right to own property)
    - - Decree to establish the All Russian Commission for the Suppression of Counter Revolution, Sabotage and Speculation
      - Bank Decree (nationalised banks and ended private flow of capital)
      - Military Decree (removed class ranks, saluting and military decorations, placed the army under the control of the soviets)
      - Decrees on Church (nationalised church land, removed marriage and divorce from church control and gave women the right to initiate divorce)
- - - - Russia loses: 26 % of its population, 27 % of its arable land, 73 % of its iron industry, 75 % of its coal industry