Chapter 7 - Economic and social developments

nomenklatura system was introduced in ___ with a list of _____ positions

• 1923

• 5,500

Name 3 things the Workers opposition opposed :

• military discipline

• state appointed union leaders

• Trotsky

The ___ was given the power in ___ to carry out the death penalty, and targeted those accused of speculation.

• GPU

• 1921

In ____, ____ was established to approve all writing as part of a wider censorship crackdown, with ______ of writers being deported

• 1922

• GLAVIT

• thousands

Union of the Militant Godless was established in ____, and imprisonned _____ of priests with their motto of :

• 1921

• thousands

• the struggle against religion is a struggle for socialism

The Ban on Factions was created at the ___ party conference ( ___ ___ ), after Kollontai established the _____ _____ in (____ ____)

• tenth

• march 1921

• worker’s opposition

• Jan 1921

Rations in ____were __ a day, with none for the bourgeoise

• 1918

• 50g

By ___ ____, and despite the use of internal passports and checkpoints, __% of the Petrograd workforce had left.

• April 1918

• 60%

Civil war deaths in action

350,000

How many died from starvation during the civil war?

3 million

When was nationalisation extended to nearly all businesses under war communism?

Nov 1920

Under war communism____ were banned, and workers’ ____ which had run factories were abolished

• strikes

• soviets

The harvest of ____ only produced __% of the 1913 level, producing famine

• 1921

• 48%

Following the destructive policy of __________ under war communism, _/_of land was abandoned to grass

• prodrazvyorsta

• 1/3

Disease was a large problem during the civil war, with a ____ epidemic in ____ killing _ million

• typhus

• 1920

• 3

State Capitalism

1917-18

The Supreme Council of the National economy, AKA _____, was established in ___ _____

• Veshenka

• Dec 1917

In ____, _____ was established to spread electricity, one of the largest achievements of the Bolsheviks.

• 1920

• GOLERO

Wages declined by __% during war communism, with heavy industry only __% of its pre-war total

• 60%

• 20%

War communism can be argued to have filled its key aim of feeding the ____

army

Monthly inflation of food prices was __% under war communism, due to the shortages in food supplies due to the policy of prodrazvyostka

20%

Kulaks translates to ____ and were portrayed as enemies of the people

fists

____ ______ ______ was set up in ___ ____ and organised requisitions of grain from peasants.

• Food Supplies Dictatorship

• May 1918

_______ people took part in the Tambov uprising (Aug 1920 - June 1921) showing the scale of discontent

70,000

The Tambov rising was crushed in ___ ____ , with _______ red army troops using chemical weapons and destroying entire villages.

• June 1921

• 100.000

Martial Law was declared in Russia in ___ _____

Jan 1921

In ___ ___, there were ___ uprisings across Russia

• Feb 1921

• 155

When did the Kronstadt rebells send their manifesto to Lenin, declaring their mutiny?

March 1921

• how many sailors mutinied in Kronstadt?

• How many Kronstadt sailors had supported the Bolshevik revolution?

• 30,000

• 20,000