what problems did Lenin face after October
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- what problems did Lenin face after October 1917 and how did he deal with them?
- solutions
- Lenin used the soviet to pass the decree on land. all land was confiscated and handed to the peasants
- fulfilled their promise of peace, land bread.
- if anything just gave consent to what was already happening.
- compramise of principles: they wanted land for the state not the people. this was a social revolutionary policy
- peasants had seized land across the country
- fulfilled their promise of peace, land bread.
- peace decree: end to the war
- fulfilled peace land and bread again
- massive loss of land, industry and population due to treaty but was nessisary
- one third of population lost. one third of agricultural land and over half of industry
- massive loss of land, industry and population due to treaty but was nessisary
- Russia was still at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary
- Germans where only 100 miles from Petrograd
- fulfilled peace land and bread again
- set up a new government and its bodies
- neded to create a government free of the soviets. they where under risk of being vote out
- at the top was Sovnarkom. Lenin was chairman. (role was similar to prime minister)
- the constituent assembly went along as planned. the Bolsheviks got little support at all
- The Bolsheviks did not have support every where (only in the major cities)
- would not have the public support to cancel the constituent assembly
- the Bolsheviks scrambled the meetings with the red army.
- the opposition was divided. the left of the SR's left with Lenin. the Mensheviks where also divided into two camps
- The Bolsheviks did not have support every where (only in the major cities)
- Lenin used the soviet to pass the decree on land. all land was confiscated and handed to the peasants
- problems
- Russia was still at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary
- Germans where only 100 miles from Petrograd
- peasants had seized land across the country
- Industrial production had slumped due to new "freedoms" they received under provisional government
- Unemployment and inflation had risen
- The Bolsheviks did not have support every where (only in the major cities)
- would not have the public support to cancel the constituent assembly
- the bolsheviks had no experience running the country
- civil servents and state banks refused to deal with them
- neded to create a government free of the soviets. they where under risk of being vote out
- Russia was still at war with Germany and Austria-Hungary
- solutions
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