Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Consolidation of power
- Problems facing Lenin after Oct. Rev.
- Still at war with
Germany and
Austria-Hungary.
- Occupying forces
controlled most of
western Russia.
- Peasants seized land,
industruial production fell,
unemplyment and inflation
rising.
- Bolsheviks did not
have mass support
across the country.
- Lenin too vulnerable to
cancel elections for
Constituent Assembly
(Bol. only had 1/4).
- Forming a
Government
- No experience of governing
and administration.
- Gov. officals went on
strike and state bank
refused to release any
funds to new Gov.
- Create a Gov. free
from control of
All-Russian Soviet.
- Soviet pass 3 decrees first; 1. Land -
confiscate all private land and give to the
peasants. 2. Peace - steps to end war. 3.
Organisation with the new gov.
- Close down newspapers
which were critical of the
Bolsheviks.
- Ending a war
- No choice -
deeply
unpopular and
factor in fall of
PG.
- Needed military
for internal
enemies.
- Ceasefire - Dec. 1917.
- 22nd Dec. Bolshevik
peace delegation.
- Germany had severe
demands - take 1/3 of
Russia population = 1/3
of agricultre.
- 7/8 Jan - continure
negotiations.
- 27th Jan - Trotsky signed peace traty with
Ukraine. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - offical end
of war with Germany.
- Forced to pay high price in loss of territory and economic wealth -
Bolshevik gov actually annulled treaty.
- Constituent Assembly
- Promised by PG after feb. rev.
- SR took most seats - Lenins concern was how
to prevent Assembly from changing new
Bolshevik rule.
- 1st = Feb. 5th 1918 -
armed troops and red
guards dispersed.
- End of any democracy under
Lenin - start of communism.
- Bol.
successful due
to opposition
divided about
what to do.
- SR split into two
factions.
- Left-wing = support Bolsheviks
- Mensheviks divided -
only come back
together when Lenin
firmly in control.