Lenin in Power

• Lenin's Reforms

  • Land given to peasants
  • Workers now own factories
  • 8hr working day
  • Introduces unemployment, and sickness benefit
  • Established equality amongst men and women
  • Plans to end the war
  • Banks taken over by Government
• Communist Dictatorship set up

  • Introduces press censorship
  • Bans all non-socialist political parties
  • Created secret police - CHEKA
• November 1917

  • Election for a Constituent Assembly held
  • Bolsheviks lost, day after the Constituent Assembly met, the Red Guards shut it down
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Lenin needed to strengthen his power - ending the war was a sure way to do this
  • The terms of the treaty were:
  • Lost of wealthy territories - Ukraine, Finland, Baltic States, Poland
  • Paid 6 billion marks to Germany