Bolshevik Consolidation of Power 1917-1924

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  • Bolshevik Consolidation of Power 1917-1924
    • ECONOMIC FLEXIBILITY
      • War Communism= success in civil war
      • switch to NEP= revolts stop, peasant relationship is fixed
    • CLASS WARFARE
      • red terror against former people
      • NEPmen got arrested
    • MILITARY FORCE
      • Pulling out of WW1
      • Reds were united force
      • strong leadership= Trotsky
      • Cheka played significant role in keeping order
    • POLITICAL REPRESSION
      • One party control= no opposition
      • Ban of factions 1921 ensured less division
        • Gulags were set up for political prisoners
      • Ban of other parties 1921
        • Glavnit- censorship of everything
    • WEAKNESSES/FAILURES OF OPPONENTS
      • greatly suffered from divisions
      • SRs and Mensheviks were outlawed so could not act
      • Whites lost in the civil war
    • CONCESSIONS AND DECREES
      • decrees were not communist
      • NEP
      • Bresk-Litovsk
      • Women gain more rights

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