1. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson you will be able to…
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*

2. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
Task: Once you are in
And settled…
Each of these
Cartoons links
To the First
Bolshevik Decrees
In October 1917.
Can you work them
All out?

3. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
What were Lenin’s three big policies?
First Soviet Constitution – Feb 1918 decrees attack Church, further decrees nationalised Banks, made inheritance of property illegal. Formal constitution in law on 10th July “He who does not work, neither shall he eat”. Election by universal suffrage.
Treaty of Brest Litovsk March 1918 – Georgia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuiania and Poland come under German Occupation. Russia loses 26% pop, 32% arable land, 33% manufacturing and 75% of coal and iron. “We gained a little time, and sacrificed a great deal of space.” (Lenin)
War Communism – Realities of forthcoming civil war and loss of resources resulted in “Decree on Nationalisation” in June 1918.
- Strict centralised control of all forms of economic production and distribution
- Outlawing of private trade
- Printing of vast amounts of bank notes.
Jan b notes v 1.3m gold. By tr notes v 70k gold. Confiscation of
Resources from Kulaks, rationing introduced, strikes outlawed, desertion of towns,
Rural uprisings, forced mobilisation of labour.

4. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
Why did Civil War Break out in
1918?
“Whites” formed of former
Tsarist officers, members of
PG and Kadets and SRs.
March 1918 British Army lands
In Murmansk and Vladivostok.
May 1918 The Czech Legion
stage revolt and seize Trans
Siberian and Fights its way
east.
Tsar and family executed in
July 1918
Red Army well resourced by
Trotsky (Conscription) but
Surrounded.

5. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
Ipateav house

6. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
Czech Legion

7. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
Government
Trotsky reforms the Red Army
Lenin’s use of “Red Terror”.
CHEKA killed 500,000.
Sovnarkom (Council of
People’s commissars)
Soviet lost influence after
Rigged elections.
March 1919 Politburo created.
Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev,
Stalin, Krestinsky.
Decree on the Press Oct Books, Plays etc
Comintern set up under Zinoviev
Russo-Polish War
Country renamed USSR
In 1922
Economy
- NEP March 1921 abandons
War Communism
Allows ownership of small
Firms.
Peasants able to sell grain.
Large scale industry remains
Under state control.
- “Nepmen”
Society
60% unemployment 1918
Brutal attacks on Church and
Property.
Women in reality played little
Part in new Russia.
Use of cinema grows eg
Eisenstein.
- “Pravda” The Truth (govt)

8. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
LO: To assess the nature
of Lenin’s government

9. LO: To assess the nature of Lenin’s government
Describe the government of Lenin E-D
Explain how far it was successful C-B
Analyse reasons for its actions A-A*
LO: To assess the nature
of Lenin’s government