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Sovnarkom
- Problems facing Lenin
- Many soviets joined in the
revolution
- However, many
peasants/revolutionaries
supported the Socialist
Revolutionaries
- Not all soviets
supported the
Bolsheviks
- The Provisional
Government had
arranged elections for
a new parliament
(Constituent Assembly)
- Socialist
Revolutionaries were
likely to win more votes
- If so, the Bolsheviks
would have to give
up Sovnarkom to
their rivals
- Lenin sent in troops
to dissolve the
Constituent
Assembly in one
day in January 1918
- Lenin had to keep his promises he
made in his April Theses otherwise
all support would go
- November Decrees
- Decree on Land
- 220 million hectacres of land
taken from the Tsar, nobles, the
Church and other landlords.
- Peasants set up
comittees to divide
the land fairly
- Decree on unemployment
insurance
- Employment insurance to
be introduced for all
workers against injury,
illness and unemployment
- Decree on
peace
- Make peace
immediately
with Russia's
opponents in
the war
- Decree on work
- Eight-hour day,
40 hour week
for all industrial
workers
- Restrictions
on overtime
- Holiday entitilement
for workers
- Decree on
titles
- All titles and class
distictions abolished
- Decree on
press
- All
non-Bolshevik
newspapers
banned
- December Decrees
- Decree on workers' control
- All factories placed under
the control of elected
committees of workers
- Decree to set up the
political police
- The 'All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
for Combating Counter-revolution and
Sabotage' was formed - became known as
the Cheka
- Decree on political parties
- Russia's main liberal
party, the
Constitutional
Democratic Party,
was banned
- Decree on
banking
- All banks in Russia
came under
Sovnarkom's control
- Decree on marriage
- Couples permitted to
have non-religious
weddings
- Divorce made
easier
- The Cheka
- Lenin set up the Cheka
because he wanted no political
opposition or any chances of
being overrrun.
- Felix Dzerhinsky was the
leader
- Had unlimited power
- Had to answer directly to Lenin
- Targeted anyone suspected of working
for Imperial Russia, families/children of
military officers and anyone
suspected of not supporting the
government
- Used the Cheka to remove opposition, shoot army
deserters, arrest members of the main political
parties (Cadets, Socialist Revolutionaries and
Mensheviks) and remove them from politcial
activities as well as tokeep himslef safe