Soviet Organisation - Terror

5 important questions on Soviet Organisation - Terror

What was the role of the Cheka?

The Cheka was secret state police:
  1. Hunted down and executing opponents by equating class orgiin with guilt
  2. For example  in 1918, the 'Red Terror' (Cheka) executed 140,000

What is an example of violence stopping political opposition?

July 1918:
  • Left SR attempt to seize power in Moscow was crushed by 18.000 Latvian riflemen

When was former Tsarist imperial army destroyed by the Bolsheviks?

January 1918
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Why did the Bolsheviks rebuild a Red Army in March 1918?

  1. Lenin's belief that revolutions across Europe would render armies obsolete was proved false when in February 1918 the Germans pushed almost 200 kilometres into Soviet territory
  2. Moreover after the war in the Volga agains the Komuch government set up the moderate SRs

What steps did the Bolsheviks take to rebuild the Red Army?

  1. Central command by a Revolutionary Military Council, with Trotsky as chairman
  2. Regional army groups
  3. Restoration of ranks and recruitment of ex-tsarist officers, 48,000 by 1920
  4. Red Terror: taking hostage of officers' families and introduction of political commissars
  5. Conscription: call-ups by the end of 1918 created an army of 700,000 - easily larger than all White forces put together
  6. Use of the Imperial arsenals: weapons stockpiled to equip an army of 9.6 million

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