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Lenin set about creating a one-party state.
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In July, the government feared a Bolshevik revolution and crushed their revolt.
Many leading Bolsheviks, including Trotsky and Kamenev, were arrested. Lenin escaped to Finland. -
The government or the Council of Peoples' Commissars (Sovnarkom) was set up.
Lenin was the president and there were 15 ministers. -
Lenin set about reorganising the Bolshevik party
It grew from 26,000 members to 200,000 members -
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed.
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany which ended Russia's involvement in WW1. -
Lenin decided to make Moscow the capital of Russia.
The German front line was so close to Petrograd after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed in March 1918. -
Decree in nationalization.
The state took ownership of all metal,textile,electrical and mining industries. -
A class based system of rationing was introduced.
Workers,soldiers and members of the communist party were entitled to food rations that people from other social classes weren't. -
Lenin was shot down in Moscow.
He survived the assassination attempt. -
Decree of 21st November 1918 was declared,
All private trade illegal and the food commissariat was put in charge of supplying consumer goods. -
Bolshevik Party was renamed the Communist Party.
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The people's bank was authorized to print as much money as they wanted.
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37,000 businesses had been brought under direct control of the communists
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New Economic Policy
The Soviet authorities permitted farmers to grow a surplus that could be privately sold. -
Lenin was incredibly successful in defeating his enemies
He was in a secure position politically -
Signed the treaty of rapallo between Germany and Russia.
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Lenin suffered his first stroke.
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All of these socialist republics had come together as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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After a stroke he could not speak.
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He died in the village of Gorky, near Moscow.