No longer organised into classes as they had been under the Tsarist system.
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Communist party members
Bolshevik party organised into local cells, in charge of running of party in their area.
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The Party congress
Each cell elected representative to meet at party congress.
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The Central Committee
Party congress elected representatives to CC, around 70 members and supposed to be leading body of party.
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The Politburo
Five men elected from Central Committee who essentially ran the party, Lenin was the chairman. Politburo ultimately governed Russia.
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Local Soviets
Each town in Russia run by local soviet (council of workers) elected by the people.
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All Russia Congress of Soviets
Local soviet elect one representative to send to national soviet, Russia's equivalent of a government.
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The Sovnarkom
Led by Lenin, was a government institution formed shortly after the October Revolution in 1917. Created in the Russian Republic the council laid foundations in restructuring the country to form the Soviet Union.
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Card 2
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Bolshevik party organised into local cells, in charge of running of party in their area.
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Communist party members
Card 3
Front
Each cell elected representative to meet at party congress.
Back
Card 4
Front
Party congress elected representatives to CC, around 70 members and supposed to be leading body of party.
Back
Card 5
Front
Five men elected from Central Committee who essentially ran the party, Lenin was the chairman. Politburo ultimately governed Russia.
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