ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVNARKOM AND THE CLOSING OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES FACING LENIN

• contuing war with Germany
• peasants seizing land
• economy was in chaos
• substantial support in cities but limited in countryside
• strikes by civil  servants refusing to cooperate
• state bank refused to provide Bolsheviks with financial support
• knew Bolsheviks would not perform well in the Constituent assembly

DECREES

• decree on land - redistribution of land to peasants
• peace decrere- seeking immediate end to Russia's role in WW1
• new government organisation

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVNARKOM

• council of people's commissars
• Lenin- chairman
• below was all-russia congress of…