Russian Revolution Flashcard 4

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Sovnarkom

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The most powerful executive of the new government.

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Bolsheviks' control techniques: NOT sharing power with Mensheviks, SRs, and other socialists.

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Sharing power with the Mensheviks, SRs, and other socialist groups in the Soviet.

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Cheka?

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Lenin's secret police

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Bolshevik government established on 26 Oct 1917?

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Council of People's Commissars

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Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky is known for:

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Founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka.

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Soviet reforms in 1917 that were NOT implemented:

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Decree on War Communism brought all industry under government control.

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Nature of the Soviet Government?

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Portrayed as democratic, but actually a one-party Bolshevik dictatorship.

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Lenin's 'dictatorship of the proletariat' refers to a transitional stage before communism where workers dismantle capitalism.

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A transitional stage before communism, where workers destroy capitalism

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Bolsheviks' vote percentage at Nov 1917 Constituent Assembly elections?

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24%

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Lenin dismissed the Constituent Assembly on 5 Jan 1918 because the SRs won a majority and rejected the soviet government.

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The SRs won a majority, and refused to accept the soviet government.