Problems the Bolsheviks would be likely face in the long term

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  • Problems the Bolsheviks would likely face in the long term
    • Liquor problems and lack of military organisation
    • lack of support from key aspects of the state such as the bank and foreign affairs would mean the country would fall apart
    • lack of other socialist parties could lead to another revolution by opposition
    • when the promises of the Bolsheviks didn't happen there was a lack of popular support from the population
    • Division among the people
      • Mensheviks opposed total power that the Bolsheviks held
      • Bolsheviks did not want to distribute power because of 'all power to the soviets
        • really all power to the Bolsheviks
      • === Civil War
    • opportunity for the Bolsheviks support to be diminished as they had options
    • Empty factories causing issues with supply lines and employment
    • Army was facing dissolution
      • no defence
    • Use of political terror for control caused a lack of control
    • lack of control in the wider areas of the Empire
      • had to reconquer the borderlands

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