Early decrees and execution of the tsar (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards
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Month & year of four early Bolshevik decrees
Month & year of four early Bolshevik decrees
November 1917
Decree on Peace key policy
Decree on Peace key policy
Peace without annexations or indemnities
Main policy of Decree on Land
Main policy of Decree on Land
Land from landowners to peasants
What Decree on Work established
What Decree on Work established
8-hour working day
Decree on Workers' Control main feature
Decree on Workers' Control main feature
Workers' committees could run factories
Decree on Nationalities main grant
Decree on Nationalities main grant
Right to own govts (under Bolshevik control)
Constituent Assembly: SRs vs Bolsheviks vote %
Constituent Assembly: SRs vs Bolsheviks vote %
SRs 53%, Bolsheviks 24%
Date Constituent Assembly shut down
Date Constituent Assembly shut down
6 January 1918
Who shut down Constituent Assembly
Who shut down Constituent Assembly
Red Guards on Lenin's orders
Date Cheka established
Date Cheka established
7 December 1917
Definition of 'burzhui'
Definition of 'burzhui'
Middle/upper class before October Revolution
Date of Tsar Nicholas II execution
Date of Tsar Nicholas II execution
17 July 1918
Where Tsar Nicholas II held prisoner
Where Tsar Nicholas II held prisoner
Yekaterinburg
Cheka's purpose
Cheka's purpose
Terror against political opponents/counter-revolutionaries