How did the Bolsheviks consolidate their rule?

By jcofino
  • Provisional Government

    The Provisional Government took control of Russia after the Tsar's abdication.
  • Bolshevik Revolution

    They stormed the winter palace and arrested the minsters of the Provisional government.
  • Lenin in Power

    Lenin and theBolsheviks promised the people bread,peace and land. He set up the Council of People's Comissars (the Sovnarkom). It issued its first decree on november and was followed for many other decrees.
  • Civil War

    Anti-Bolshevik groups known as the Whites united against the Bolsheviks. By the spring, three separate White armies were marching on Bolshevik controlled western Russia
  • The Bolshevik Dictatorship

    Lenin promised free elections to the new Constituent Assembly. As the Bolsheviks did not gain a majority, their rivals, the peasant-based Socialist Revolutionaries were the biggest party. Lenin solved this problem sending the Red Guard to close down the Assembly
  • Treaty of Brest-Litvosk

    The next Lenin's promise was for peace. He put Trotsky in charge of negotiating a peace treaty. He hoped that a socialist revolution would break out in Germany. Since there was no revolution, Lenin had to accept their terms in the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
  • War Communism

    War Communism was the name given to the harsh economic measures the Bolsheviks adopted during the Civil War to survive. It achieved its aim to win the war but it caused terrible hardship.
  • The New Economic Policy

    At the Party Congress, Lenin announced some starling new policies which he called the New Economic Policy (NEP). This brought back capitalism for some sections of Russian society
  • Death of Lenin

    After a series of strokes in 1922 and 1923, Lenin died in January 1924.