Russia 1.1 Establishing Communist Party control

Results of the elections to the Constituent Assembly

Bolsheviks - 175 seats

Socialist Revolutionaries - 410 seats

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

March 1918

Gave some Russian territory to the Central Powers

When did the Civil War break out?

Summer 1918

Bolshevik Party membership in 1917 and 1921

1917 - 300,000 members

1921 - 730,000 members

Tambov Uprising - when did it start and why?

Union of Toiling Peasants formed in December 1920

Dissatisfied with War Communism, grain requisitioning

Tambov Uprising - who formed an army and how did the Bolsheviks respond?

Alexander Antonov

By 1921 it had 20,000 men and was attacking Bolshevik strongholds in Tambov

Bolsheviks responded by sending in 100,000 troops

When was the Kronstadt Mutiny and what happened? How did the Bolsheviks respond?

March 1921

Sailors rebelled, issued demands under the slogan "Soviets without Communists"

Trotsky put down the rebellion using 50,000 Red Army soldiers

When did Lenin authorise the Cheka to destroy opposition political parties?

February 1921

What happened to Mensheviks in Moscow and Petrograd?

In February 1921 they were sent to Butyrka Prison

What factions had formed in the Party before the 1921 Party Congress?

Workers' Opposition - wanted to reintroduce workers' control of industry

Democratic Centralists - wanted to make the Party more democratic

When did Lenin start having strokes?

1922

When were non-Communists forbidden from standing for election to local Soviets?

1920

When was the first Soviet Constitution adopted?

1924

It established the USSR

When was the Cheka established?

December 1917

How many people did the Cheka kill 1917-1923?

200,000 died at the hands of the Cheka

Size of the Cheka December 1918 and 1921

40,000 members in December 1918

250,000 members in 1921

When was the Nomenklatura system established and how long was the list?

1923

List of 5,500 key positions in the Party and government, and a list of potential candidates.

In Autumn 1919, what percentage of enterprises were controlled by the government?

80% of all enterprises were controlled by the government