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The Bolsheviks Dictartoship
Lenin had promised free elections to the new Constituent Assembly in 1917. -
Provisional Government
The Provisional Government took control of Russia after the Tsar's abdication. -
Civil War
The two combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism led by Vladimir Lenin, and the loosely allied forces known as the White Army, which included diverse interests favouring political monarchism, capitalism and social democracy. -
Lenin in Power
Lenin knew he had to fulfil his promise of giving people “bread, peace and land”. He set up the Council of People’s Commissars. -
The White Army
The White Army was a common collective name for the armed formations of the White movement and anti-Soviet governments during the Civil War in Russia. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin put Trotsky in charge of negotiating a peace treaty. He told Trotsky to try to spin out the peace negotiations as long as possible. By February of 1918, however, there was no revolution and the Germans began to advance again. -
New Economic Policy
Lenin announced the New Economic Policy (NEP). This one brought back capitalism for some sections of Russian society. -
Whites falls
The Red Army defeat the White Army because,they were not really a strong alliance and therw was limited support from the Russian population. -
Bolsheviks Victory
The Red Army was united and disciplined. It was a brilliant led by Trotsky. -
New Constitution
Lenin supervised the making of a New Constitution that turned the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Death of Lenin
Lennin suffered several strokes in 1922 and 1923, Lenin died in January 1924.
