Lenin

• What is Nationalisation


  Changing something from private to state ownership
• When was War Communism introduced?


  1918
• What did War Communism do?

  Food dictatorship, labour discipline, abolition of the market
• When was the NEP introduced

  March 1921
• What was the NEP

  Mixing a socialist and capitalist economy
• When did the government issue educational reforms?

  1918
• What did the educational reforms do?

  Abolished corporal punishment, banned religious instruction, provided polytechnic education, free breakfast, compulsory education
• What year was the decree on illiteracy?

  1919
• How much did literacy rates increase?

  50% in 1918 - 86% in 1921
• What year was the Decree of the Rights of Toiling and Exploited People?

  1918
• How much did unemployment increase in October 1918?

  100,000
• Why did factories close in July 1920?

  Fuel shortages
• How many were unemployed by 1924?

  18%
• What was the women's department of the CP called?

  Zhenotdel
• Who was the head of Zhenotdel?

  Alexandra Kollontai
• What did Lenin believe about family?

  It was an oppressive social organisation
• What was made legal during the 1920s?

  Postcard divorce and contraception
• What was the Secret Police during Lenin?

  The Cheka
• What did the Cheka do between 1917-21?

  Grain requisitioning, closed opposition newspapers, extreme violence against enemies
• Who was the head of the Cheka?

  Felix Dzerzhinsky
• When were the trials of the SR leaders?


  August 1922
• How many newspapers were shut down by 1921?

  2000
• When did Lenin propaganda appear?

  1918
• When was the Decree on Land?

  October 1917
• When was the Decree concerning Separation of Church and State?

  January 1918
• Who was head of Prolekult?

  Lunacharsky
• When was Prolekult shut down?

  1920
• What year was Agitprop established?

  1920