lenin's decrees
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- Lenin's decrees and actions to December
- Between the Bolshevik seizure of power and the end of 1917, Lenin issued a large number of decrees.
- Optimism was high and this period is sometimes known as the "Utopian phase" of Bolshevik rule. Lenin needed to fulfill his promises of change and win support.
- Lenin seems to have been genuinely convinced of the capacity of the masses to instigate a new social order.
- He gave practical expression to such beliefs in decrees such as that on worker's control in the factories in November
- Optimism was high and this period is sometimes known as the "Utopian phase" of Bolshevik rule. Lenin needed to fulfill his promises of change and win support.
- October 1917
- Workers decree: established a maximum 8 hour day
- Social insurance decree: provided old age; health and unemployment benefits.
- Press Decree: banned the opposition press.
- Decree of Peace: promised an end of war "without annexation and indemnities"
- Decree on Land: abolished private ownership of land and legitimised peasant seizures
- November 1917
- Rights of the People of Russia decree: abolished titles and class ranks.
- Nationality decree:promised self determination to the people's of the former Russian empire;in December, Finland became an independent state and a rada (parliament) set up.
- Decree on Worker's control of Factories: gave workers the right to 'supervise management'
- Judicial degree: established a new legal system of elected people's courts
- Decree to Outlaw sex discrimination: gave women equality with men and right to own property.
- Between the Bolshevik seizure of power and the end of 1917, Lenin issued a large number of decrees.
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