Pre 1924 Russia
- Created by: Joanna Moss
- Created on: 30-03-15 10:17
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- Pre-1924
- Structure of Communist Party/Soviet State
- COMMUNIST PARTY- Communist Party Members elected
- Party Congress elected
- Central Committee elected
- Secretariat
- Politburo
- Secretariat
- Central Committee elected
- Party Congress elected
- SOVIET STATE:
- Local Soviets (town councils) elects and sends representatives
- All Russian congress of Soviets (meets infrequently, elects)
- Sovnarkom (council of People's commissars) decision-making body/ Head of Sovnarkom - head of state
- All Russian congress of Soviets (meets infrequently, elects)
- Local Soviets (town councils) elects and sends representatives
- COMMUNIST PARTY- Communist Party Members elected
- Bolsheviks in Power
- 1917-1918:
- Gained popularity from peasants by granting more independence and kept control by persecuting enemies (Cheka) and censorship in newspapers
- Lenin passed measures giving land to peasants (who'd been suppressed by the Tsar)
- CIVIL WAR 1918-1921
- Needed to win -> War Communism-Military production +social, combat economy
- Enemies - "White Army" (monarchy) "Green Army" peasants wanting democracy, nationalist armies and troops from GB, FRANCE and JAPAN -> RED ARMY - well organised
- 1917-1918:
- The NEP (1921-1924)
- famine caused by War Communism led to the NEP
- 1921 - ban on factions
- This was where the revial of capitalism in the NEP created divisions - Bukharin (RW) vs left)
- 1921 - ban on factions
- A legal and private trade which replaced grain requisitioning with a tax in-kind when economy was stable - produce money
- Kronstat Rebellion (wanted restoration of democracy and end to war communism)
- Lenin ordered red army assualt - 40,000 RA troops slaughtered 10000 sailors + War Communism stopped -> temporarily capitalist
- famine caused by War Communism led to the NEP
- Communist Path to Power
- TSAR
- 1905 - Tsar's power, limit civil rights, elected Duma
- 1914 WW1 united people behind the Tsar - economy stuggled to cope - consumer goods = low = unhelped by peasants fighting
- 1917 Feb, facing imminent economic collapse and military defeat, petrograd and moscow recruited - army didnt help
- FORCED TO ABDICATE- "Provisional Government"
- 1917 Feb, facing imminent economic collapse and military defeat, petrograd and moscow recruited - army didnt help
- 1914 WW1 united people behind the Tsar - economy stuggled to cope - consumer goods = low = unhelped by peasants fighting
- 1905 - Tsar's power, limit civil rights, elected Duma
- LENIN
- April - Bolshev leader, soviets took over local affairs, one council
- Lenin's "Peace, land and bread" lost credibility = 20th OCT, first socialist republic
- TSAR
- Structure of Communist Party/Soviet State
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