Early Bolshevik Suppression

• Lenin announced a seizure of power on 25 October 1917 and the All-Russian Congress of Soviets was introduced.
• The Congress of Soviets met on 26 October 1917 and they met with other socialists to end the "coup">
• Bolsheviks and extreme SRs were left in control after the Mensheviks and most SRs left.
• Lenin established a political government of political commissars and they were known collectively as the Sovnarkom.
• Trotsky played the role of Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the Sovnarkom.
• Commissars ruled without decree and there was no need for a Soviet reference.
• The Sovnarkom was primarily made up of Bolsheviks.
• The Decree on Peace called for the end to war.
• The Decree on Land called for land to be property of the people.
• The Decree on Workers Control called for workers to have factory control.
• Titles and ranks were abolished under the Sovnarkom.
• Banks and churches were nationalised under the Sovnarkom.