HIS250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Petrograd Soviet, Prodrazvyorstka, War Communism
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Evaluate factors that enabled lenin to ensure the survival of the soviet state. After the bolshevik revolution of october 1917, although power had been seized, not. One tactic = october revolution presented to russia as a rising by petrograd soviet in which many parties were represented (made the new regime more acceptable) New soviets began to be set up in towns/cities many had bolshevik majorities, many didn"t. Still faced opposition (eg: civil war 1918-22) Bolsheviks had 300,000 party members needed to control a vast empire. Sovnarkom - one party government: bourgeois title minister"s" abandoned for proletarian people"s commissars", cabinet became sovnarkom in theory, approved by congress of soviets, lenin refused to invite other socialist parties to this gov. Death of constituent assembly elections held all over russia in nov 1917, sr"s got 40% majority bolsheviks only had 23% 47 out of 80 million electorate voted the most representative body russia had ever seen new assembly elected sr leader, chernov.
