Communist government 1917-41

1917

• October revolution

• decrees on land peace and workers (also 1918)

• consituent assembly elections

• December - Cheka set up

1918

• treaty of brest-litovsk

• civil war

1921

• end of civil war

• tambov peasants and kronstadt sailors rebel

• ban on factions

• stalin becomes general secretary

1924

• death of lenin

• power struggle

1928

stalin is the undisputed leader

1932

Ryutin affair

1934

• congress of victors

• murder of kirov

• great terror

1936

• trial of 16

1937

• trial of 17

• purge of the red army

1938

trial of 21

how did the civil war help the bolsheviks?

• the cheka (1917)

• red army under trotsky grew in power

• politburo became more important than sovnarkon

• nomenklatura more important than soviets

how did lenin establish control

• lenin = chairman of sovnarkom

• lenin passed decrees (land, peace, workers)

• civil war (cheka, red army, sovnarkom/politburo, nomenklatura/sovoets)

• crisis of 1912

crisis of 1921

• tambov peasants crashed by red army

• krondstadt mutiny crushed by red army

• ban on factions

stalin’s key opponents

• kamanev

• zinoviev

• trotsky

• bukharin

1925

stalin allied with bukharin to form the duumvirate to gain majority of politburo

triumvirate

group of zinoviev, kamanev and stalin to keep trotsky out of power

Lenin enrolment

1924 - 128,000 new members of the party, loyal to stalin

how did stalin become leader

• lenin’s testament kept a secret

• triumvirate

• duumvirate

• ban on factions

• lenin enrolment

how did stalin control the ussr?

• the great terror (1934-38)

• show trials, purges, secret trials of army leaders loyal to trotsky