Soviet Organisation - Terror
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What was the role of the Cheka?
- Hunted down and executing opponents by equating class orgiin with guilt
- For example in 1918, the 'Red Terror' (Cheka) executed 140,000
What is an example of violence stopping political opposition?
- 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?
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Why did the Bolsheviks rebuild a Red Army in March 1918?
- 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
- 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?
- Central command by a Revolutionary Military Council, with Trotsky as chairman
- Regional army groups
- Restoration of ranks and recruitment of ex-tsarist officers, 48,000 by 1920
- Red Terror: taking hostage of officers' families and introduction of political commissars
- Conscription: call-ups by the end of 1918 created an army of 700,000 - easily larger than all White forces put together
- Use of the Imperial arsenals: weapons stockpiled to equip an army of 9.6 million
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