1918

• Elections and removal of Constituent Assembly 


  SRs won 53%, Bolsheviks won 24%; 12 killed in demonstrations against removal
• Bread ration in Petrograd

  50 grammes per person daily
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk


  3rd March 1918; loss of 62 million people, 3/4 iron and coal supplies, 2 million sq km of land (1/3 agricultural), 3 billion roubles of war reparations, ¼ railway lines
• Civil War

  April 1918 to March 1921 – 5 million peasants died of starvation
• War Communism

  June 1918 - system to supply Red Army with food
• July 1918


  Bolshevik Constitution - Sovnarkom at the top; Tsar's family assassinated
• September 1918


  Red Terror; nationalisation of railways and factories
• Armistice between Russia and Germany

  November 1918 - end involvement in WW1