Lenin 1917 - 1924

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Katharina Hanreich

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  • Bolsheviks implememted authoritarian measures to consolidate their power and suppress dissent.
    They employed ruthless tactics that were aimed as consolidating their power and maintaining control over the population
  • Lenin was the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and from 1922 of the Soviet Union
  • Historical perspective:
    Lenin brought about not the disctatorship of the working calss as he had promised but the dictatorship of the bolsheviks over the people
     
  • Early Actions of Lenin that support the argument that he was a dictator:
    • Establishment of Sovnarkom
    • removal of cinstituent assembly
    • under War Communism peasants were forced to adhere to War communism
    • Enstablished the supreme Council of National Economy to ensure government control and central planning over economy
  • Facts that support the argument that Lenin was not a political dictator:
    • dcree on nationalities - which allowed self-determination
    • Koronisatziya
    • Workers decree 1917 - gave morerights to workers
    • new legal system established of elected courts
    • some mobility unlike during Tsarist regime
    • workers and peasants could influence state decisions by electing members of local soviets
  • After the overthrow of the Tsar during the 1917 Feburary revolution, Lenin retruned to Russia and made the promise of Peace, Land and Liberty
  • SOVNARKOM:
    = Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov
    = Executive committe formed with exclusively Bolshevik members
    • evidence that Lenin had no intention of ruling with and through the Petrograd Soviet
    • November 1917 - Decreed that Sovnarkom could pass legislationw without approval of soviet
  • Lenin's decrees

    Based on his promise of peace, land and liberty and on his April Thesis
  • Decree on Peace

    1. Armistice November
    2. Brest Litovsk
  • Decree on Land

    Private ownership of land abolished
  • Workers Decree

    1. Right to supervise management
    2. 8 hour working day
    3. Workers benefits, e.g. unemployment
  • Nationality Decree

    1. Self-determination, e.g. Finland becomes independent
    2. Koronisatsia
  • Legal Decree

    1. New system of elected courts
    2. Outlawed sexual discrimination
  • Decree on Church

    1. All churches nationalised
    2. Marriage & divorce removed from church control
  • Nationalisation of banks
  • Established Supreme Council of National Economy