Decrees 1917 oct/nov

• Lenin dealt domestic opp via decrees
• Social reforms - illusion asserting legitamcy ;

  • Social insurance introduced (old age, unemployment, sickness benefits) Women declared equal to men and able to own property
• Decree on peace nov 8


  leaving war Germany... overly idealistic
• decree on workers control nov 27 (econ reform)

  • already happening so more effective commites
• Economic Reforms:

  • Land socialized; workers control factories
  • decree 8-hour workday nov 11
  • Church land nationalized
  • State monopoly on banking established
  • Tsarist war and foreign debts annulled
  • Large house ownership outlawed
  • Share dealing banned; dividends canceled
  • Private capital transferred to local Soviets
• Decree on Land oct 26

  -private ownership banned and then redistributed dec opp, but peasents taking land anyways