COMM CONTROL AND POLICE STATE

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  • Created on: 07-04-17 14:41
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  • Early steps to secure Communist control and establishment of Police State
    • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 1918
      • Lenin determined to end war
        • War unpopular and he needed to utilise military resources
      • Trotsky appointed to lead peace negotiations
      • German demands very harsh:
        • Give up Baltic States-Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
        • Poland
        • The Ukraine
      • Russia would lose:
        • 32% of arable land
        • 26% of railway systems
        • 33% of factories
        • 75% of coal and iron ore mines
        • 60 million Russians
      • Many Bolsheviks opposed the peace agreement
        • Convinced by Lenin to accept it
        • March 3rd 1918
    • The Cheka
      • Otherwise known as the secret police
        • First established in December 1917
      • Initially focused on ending government workers strikes
      • Used to remove political opponents
        • Also to shoot deserters from the Red Army
      • Launched 'Red Terror' after failed assassinationLenin in 1918
        • Anybody who criticised the gov could be arrested and shot without trial
      • Also use to check loyalty of party members
      • In later years, it changed its name to OGPU, NKVD and KGB
    • Other policies
      • Supreme Economic Council-help restore economy
      • Nationalisation of banks
      • Banning of the Kadets
      • Establishment of Red Army
      • Ending all foreign and domestic debt

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