Communist Government Russia

Edexcel Alevel - Communist States

Lenin One Party State: What congress meant a ban on ____

1921 10th party congress

factions

Lenin One Party State: Thos who founded factions could be ____

expelled from the party

Lenin One Party State: Politburo was set up with supporters of Lenin like who?

Trotsky

Stalin

Lenin One Party State: The politburo met how often and ruled by ____

Daily

decree

Lenin One Party State: What did Lenin shut down after __ days due to an undesired result

1917 constituent assembly

1 day

Lenin One party state: What treaty took place in 1918 and ultimately allowed for the consolidation of bolshevick power?

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: What system meant that jobs were given based off of loyalty to Lenin?

Nomenklatura

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: When was the cheka created

1917

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: between what years did the cheka execute ____ and put ____ in labour camps

1917-23

300,000

100,000

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: When was the Red Terror?

1917

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: From what year did the Cheka target _____

1921

Menshevicks

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: in what year was there popular unrest

1921

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: What were the two rebellions and when did the take place

Tambov 1921

Krondstat 1919

Lenin Centralisation/Cheka: Who ran the Red Army?

Trotsky

Tsarist generals

Lenin Nature of government: When and what was the Decree on Land

1917

gave peasants the right to seize land from the church and the nobility

Lenin Nature of government: When and what was the Workers Decree

1917

8 hour working day

set minimum wage

Lenin Nature of government: when was NEP introduced

1921

Lenin Nature of government: ____ was reintroduced in 1921 to increase productivity

currency

Lenin Nature of government: The en of grain requesitioning led to the end of what

famine

killed 6 million

Lenin Nature of government: What and when was the scissor crisis

gap between farmers incomes and industrial prices

1923

Stalin Elimination of opponents: Whos murder in ____ allows stalin to launch the purges

kirov

1934

Stalin Elimination of opponents: What Trial in 19__ leads to the murder of which two party official?

Trial of the Sixteen 1936

zinoviev

kamenev

Stalin Elimination of opponents: Stalins political rival ____ is executed in ___

Bukharin

1938

Stalin Elimination of opponents: What dates are the Great purges?

1936-38

Stalin Elimination of opponents: During the purges, how many are put in Gulags

13 million

Stalin Elimination of opponents: Purge of the ___ Army in what years?

Red

1937-38

Stalin Elimination of opponents: How many junior officers are purged?

35,000

Stalin Elimination of opponents: Who fed Stalins paranoia meaning most of the purges were unnecessary?

Yagoda