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Lenin imposed control
Organisation of Red Army
Created by Trortsky, the Red Army was the reason why the Bolsheviks were so successful
By 1920, they had 3 million men
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The Cheka
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Led by Felix Dzerzhinsky
- aristocrat but hater his own class
- no empathy, effective in destroying opposition
- granted unlimited power & only answered to Lenin
Actions to arrest, detention and torture
Only cared about secure power and creating war, ignore all form of social justice
Labour Camps
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By the time of Lenin's death in 1924, there were 315 camps
How was it?
- White POWs
- uncooperative peasants
- political prisoners (such as SRs)
- harsh
- severe hunger
- beatings
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Conscription
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Trotsky- most notable dispute was with Joseph Stalin, who acted as political commissar in the Caucasus.
Troops
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Many of the peasants were reluctant warriors, and desertions were common
Class War
- Basic rules relating to evidence and proof of guilt are no longer required
- Pretence of legality abandoned
- Persecution was directed against whole classes
Show Trials
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Between April-August 1922: trials were put on for
- USSR's owtlawed parties' leaders
- Mosvow clergies
--> Humiliating public trial before sent to imprisonment
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Trade Unions Crushed
Trotsky ended the independence of the trade unions, legalised in 1905, calling it ‘unnecessary chatterboxes’
Early in 1920, workers were brought
under military discipline
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Romanov Murder
Built up from July 1918:
Group of SRs assassinated the German ambassador in protest of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- A month later attempt to assassinate Lenin
- Murdered the Petrgrad chairman of Cheka
In the same month, Lenin ordered the Cheka to exectuethe Tsar and his family in Ekaterinburg