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Summary How Lenin consolidated control
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How Lenin consolidated control through terror or economic policies
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Consolidation of Power Promises of “Bread, land and peace” – April Theses
NEP – economic concession to achieve political survival – change in direction to being more
pragmatic to become popular
Closing Constituent Assembly + elections
Ban on Factions 1921
Terror – Cheka to instrument terror and
Soviet Constitution
Win the civil war
War communism – to keep regime afloat. Seized grain from reluctant peasants and took
strong measures to keep workers in cities and towns so that they could continue to run
industries
Appeal of Lenin – Cult of Personality
Opponents divided
Democratic Centralism
Execute Tsar and family 1918
Make peace 1918 – Treaty of Brest Litovsk ends war and honours peace pledge
Controlled Party Congress
Nomenklatura system
Gave workers and peasants what they wanted to get their supports e.g. abolition of titles
and ranks
Refused to take part in socialist coalition governments so crushed Constituent
Highly centralised state so policies could be carried out
(Russian Orthodox Church)
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