2. —Proclamation of the petrograd soviets
“The provisional Government has been
overthrown. The cause for which the people have
fought has been made safe: the iminent proposal of
democratic peace, the end of land owners’ rights,
workers’ control over production, the creation of a
soviet government. LONG LIVE THE
REVOLUTION OF WORKERS, SOLDIERS AND
PEASANTS.”
4. Council of peoples commissar.
To solve problems and issues the
government was facing.
Constitutional assembly
Dictatorship- congress of
soviets
Sovnarkom
Trying to make
a democracy
His government
5. The treaty of Brest- Litovsk
- was hoping for a socialist revolution in
Germany that never arrived
- Had to accept the terms of the treaty:
1. Population
2. Agricultural land
3. Industries
4. Railways
5. Coal mines
6. 300 million gold roubles.
- Lenin was willing to do ANYTHING to
maintain his revolution.
8. Assassination attempts and the
dictatorship made him more
enemies and he needed
protection.
Different groups with different
goals
1.social revolutionaries
2. Mensheviks
3. Tsar supporters
4. Landlord and capitalist's
The cheka The whites
The opposition
9.
10. The red army
- Trotsky
- Mantains control of
the countryside and
the industries
- Red terror
- Propaganda
- Territorial advantage
