Chapter 4 - October Revolution

Strength of the Bolsheviks Failures of Prov Gov Early Consolidation of Bolshevik Control Lenin + Decrees

State Bank refused to hand over its reserved to the Bolsheviks for __ days, and only capitulated after threat of armed intervention

10

The decree on Nationalising Banks took place on the __ ___

27th Dec

Deaths during October revolution

5

October Decrees were passed on ___, ____, _____ ___ and ____

• peace

• land

• workers rights

• press

On the __ Oct, the Decree on Peace was passed ____ by the congress of Soviets

• 26th

• unanimously

When was the Decree on Press?

27th Oct

When was the Decree on Land?

27th Oct

In __ 1917, what right did the Worker’s decree guarantee?

• Oct

• 8 hr day

After significant protest over one-party rule, Lenin let _ Socialist Revolutionaries join the _____ in ___

• 7

• Sovnarkom

• Nov

The Cheka was established on the __ ___ 1917, with ___ employees under the leadership of Felix _________

• 20th dec

• 200

• Dzerzhinsky

On the ___ of __, the Executive ____ __ ______ demanded a ‘____ _____ _____’ and refused to transport food, however they were ignored

• 29th Oct

• committee of Railwaymen

• united socialist government

when was the revolution launched?

25th Oct

When were:

• Kadets, Mensheviks + Right leaning SRs rounded up + imprisoned

• Anti-Bolshevik papers closed down

• Purge of civil service

Dec 1917

While total nationalisation was not implemented, the _____, (Council of National Economy_ was established to control economic development in ___ 1917

• Veshenka

• Dec

When did the _ SRs join and leave the Sovnarkom?

• 7

• Nov

• March

The _____, (The soviet of People’s Commissars) ruled by ___, contradicting the ‘all power to the soviets’ slogan of the revolution.

• Sovnarkom

• Decree

Who was commissar for Social Welfare?

Kollontai

Who was commissar for Foreign Affairs?

Trotsky

Who was commissar for nationalities

Stalin

Kerensky had a force of __ cossack regiments, however was defeated on the __ ___ 1917.

• 18

• 2nd Nov

What proportion of the vote did the SRs get in the Constituent Assembly Election?

53%

What proportion of the vote did the Bolsheviks get in teh Constituency Election?

24%

When were the Constituency Assembly elections?

Nov 1917

The Bolsheviks seized the Kremlin in Moscow in __ after a __day battle

• Nov

• 10

When did Lenin proclaim victory of the revolution?

5th Nov

In ___ 1917, the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia’ gave nationalities full independence if they wanted it. Within a month, ___ and ____ had both broken away.

• Nov

• Finland

• Ukraine