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
- Lenin determined to end war
- 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
- Otherwise known as the secret police
- 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
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 1918
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