EP Success of the Bolsheviks

• Lenin's April Thesis:

  • promised peace land and bread
• Successes of Lenin:

  • Removed Russia from WWI - through Brest Litovsk Treaty
  • Decrees that gave increased rights to workers
• Limitations to success:

  • War Communism 1917 - 1921 : radical rationing
  • dissolved the consistuent assembly after 1 day
  • increased used of the Cheka
  • implementation of Sovnarkom - entirely Bolshevik led
• Lenin purged the Kulaks
• Lenin's leadership can be described as a dictatorship:

  Economic :

  • War Communism 1917 - 1921
  • rationing
  • state control of economy during Civil War:
  • Political:
  • increased use of the Cheka
  • purging of the Kulaks
  • Sovnarkom
  • closed consistuent assembly
• Lenin's rule was not a dictatrship:

  Economically:

  • NEP 1921 - 1928
  • ended grain requisitioning
  • allowed private trade

  Politically:

  • workers decrees