Methods of Implementing ideologies

• What were the usual measures of enforcements

  • Secret police
  • the army
  • propaganda
  • censorship
• What is the main difference according to historians between the communists and Tsars?


  • Both used repression similarly
  • But they emphise communists use of extreme repressive measures to purposely create terror
• What was Alexander II secret police and wutdaydo?

  • initially used the 3rd section to exile opponents
  • Okhrana replaced it in 1880
  • less openly aggressive body
  • Was used to target specfic individuals rather than large , or dissidents
  • Even though many politcal opponents were inprisoned or exiled, secret police was not that effective:

  Numerous attempts on his life and the successful assasination attempt in 1881
• how did Lenin implement Marxism-leninism?

  • views passed on through writing + pamphlets
  • The bolshevik Revolution 1917
  • Civil war 1917-1921
  • War communism (nationalising large companies and grain req) - IMPLEMENTED HARSHLY THROUGH CHEKA
  • NEP - ensure moderate support