bolshevik consolidation after 1917
- Created by: Caitlinmaskell
- Created on: 19-05-19 11:40
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- bolshevik consolidation after oct. 1917 before civil war
- Removal of constituent assembly
- Lenin allowed vote to go ahead and the outcome was 53% SRs/ 24% bolsheviks
- after the outcome lenin immediately declared the elections mean nothing
- the constituent assemblymen for one day and attempted to redraft bolshevikdecrees but then the red guard dissolvedat gun point
- lenin justified it by saying Russia was now governed by a dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning lenient gov't had taken control on behalf of them
- establishment of a one party state
- the bolsheviks had seized power in the name of the proleteriat and using their slogan all power to the soviets
- implying the councils of working class people would help run all aspects of russia
- however lenin did not want to share power. he believed the bolsheviks were acting in interests of proletariat and that this gave him complete authority
- implying the councils of working class people would help run all aspects of russia
- the bolsheviks had seized power in the name of the proleteriat and using their slogan all power to the soviets
- consolidation the one party state
- new decrees: on land, workers etc
- capital moved to moscow so more central
- red terror- cheka set up
- the soviet constitution set up w sovnarkom at top who were elected by the all russian congress of soviets who were supposed to be in charge but it was basically sovnarkom
- Removal of constituent assembly
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