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Dual Authority with the Petrograd Soviet = gulf of ideology - hard to get things done
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Failure to deal with the Kornilov Affair - armed the Bolsheviks
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Continuation of the war - June Offensive - led to land seizures and mass discontent
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Failure to deal with the land question - established a Land Committee but that did little
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Lvov was a poor leader and weakened the PG for Kerensky
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Strikes still resumed... 120,000
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Liberalism = allowing radical parties to grow
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Soviet Order Number 1 - led to disarray and problems in the army
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Stopped the July Days efficiently
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Kerensky was good and worked well between the PS and the PG (he wsa a radical)
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Did pass a lot of reforms that made a lot of people happy - freedom of speech, freedom of press, etc. Russia was a free country for 9 months only...
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Okhrana abolished
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April Theses - "Peace, bread land". "All Power to the Soviets"
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hyped up discontent - he was a plague bacillus
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hyped up the land question
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March to city.... thought as a coup...
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Kerensky armed the Bolshveiks - MISTAKE
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BUT - it was the PG's fault that they armed the Bs!
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Well centered in the middle of the coutnry - high ground
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At the place with the main cities - great for factories
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Covered the armament dumps from WW1
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Railway hub
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hIgh population which meant more conscription
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Scattered geographically
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No telephone lines/railway control = horseback messengers used
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Unity hurt as a result
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Leaders were supreme - Trotsky in armoured train, Comrade Lenin
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Red Army was extremely loyal and harsh discpline was used
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Easy communications = good organisation
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Cheka making sure the Red Army was loyal
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Communications = bad organisation
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All different reasons - disunity as a result - Greens wanted to help peasantry but fought for the Whites
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Generals didnt trust each other - Kolchak was not trusted
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Discipline was over cruel and this led to mutinies/desertion and people joining the Reds.
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JUST gained the peasantry's support with the land decree and SRs in Sovnarkom... the key to winning
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Industrial vote BUT there was discontent - BUT any strikes soon SQUASHED
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Had the nationalities vote
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Had the nobility's support - Kolchak - land to the nobility.
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Command economy - made many armaments and had fantastic results for that
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BUT- Famine, mass death, starvation, discontent.... BUT = people were desperate to fight for a living... good for lenin
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Imagist propaganda
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'Mother Russia'
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Didn't embrace properly
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Deniken did not use at all
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Grain requisitioning
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7 day week - hardcore work
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Conscription to army and to the factories
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All focus on heavy industry
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All focus on armaments
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Nationalisation
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Black market
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Peasants held back grain in some cases - subsistence farming
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Disaffected workers - Bolsheviks seemed to have failed their proletariat
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Adverse living conditions - consumer goods shortages similiar to that of the First FYP
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famines - mass discontent
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33% left the cities!
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Population crashed - 170 million to 130 million (grr had to look at my notes for that one!)
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Typhus
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Railway system broke down
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Kronstadt Uprising and Tambov Uprising
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Privatisation of businesses and industry BUT "commanding heights" kept in control of the state
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Private trade allowed - Nepmen did three quarters of this
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Grain requisitioning stopped - as a result peasantry were happier
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Grain requisitioning
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7 day week - hardcore work
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Conscription to army and to the factories
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All focus on heavy industry
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All focus on armaments
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Nationalisation
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Black market
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Peasants held back grain in some cases - subsistence farming
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Disaffected workers - Bolsheviks seemed to have failed their proletariat
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Adverse living conditions - consumer goods shortages similiar to that of the First FYP
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famines - mass discontent
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33% left the cities!
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Population crashed - 170 million to 130 million (grr had to look at my notes for that one!)
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Typhus
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Railway system broke down
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Kronstadt Uprising and Tambov Uprising
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Privatisation of businesses and industry BUT "commanding heights" kept in control of the state
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Private trade allowed - Nepmen did three quarters of this
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Grain requisitioning stopped - as a result peasantry were happier
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