methods of control

• most communist economic policies had been dropped by the NEP and the turn about was hard for many revolutionaries to accept and made most waverers realise the dangerous forces still in russia
• the Cheka was established by the bolsheviks in December 1917 and was headed by a polish communist Dzerzhinsk
• what was the Chekas role

  dealing with counter-revolutionaries
• by the summer of 1917 the Cheka had began to clamp down on left-wing SRs especially after they were linked with an attempt to assassinate Lenin in august 1918
• under the guidance of Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky the Cheka implemented the red terror and part of this involved enforcing war communism, the 'labour code', the elimination of kulaks, the administration of labour camps and the militarisation of labour