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AWESOMENESS:

This is lenin. He died in Chapter 13, on January 1924. He suffered a series of strokes from 1922 to 1923 before he died. He is a great man.

NOTES: __Chapter 11 - Peace at Any Price__ __First Decrees of Sovanarkom__ __Constituent Assembly__
 * **__Sovnarkom__**
 * New government set up by Lenin
 * 8th November 1917 - Decree of Land
 * Land given to peasants
 * 8th November - Decree on Peace
 * Russia make peace with all enemies
 * 12th November - Decree on Work
 * Laid down rules about work
 * 14th November - Decree on unemployment insurance
 * Gave insurance to workers
 * 1st December - Decree on the press
 * Banned all non-Bolshevik newspapers
 * 11th December
 * Banned Russian's main liberal party, the Constitutional Democratic Party, arrest leaders
 * 20th December
 * __Cheka__
 * Political force to deal with opponents and enemies
 * 27th December - Decree on workers' control
 * Put all factories under control of elected committees of workers
 * 27th December - Decree on banking
 * All banks in Russia under Sovnarkom's control
 * 31st December - Decree on Marriage
 * Allowed couples to have non-religious weddings
 * November 1917, elections help for Russia's new parliament, Constituent Assembly
 * Bolsheviks badly beaten
 * Sovnarkom stopped meeting
 * Bolshevik red guards killed and wounded many people who supported assembly

__Treaty of Brest-Litovsk__
 * Lenin believe ending war against Germany and Russia needed for Bolsheviks to stay in power
 * 3rd December 1917, peace conference between germany russia and austria held.
 * **__Leon Trotsky__**
 * Russian Commissar, minister of foreign affairs
 * Dragged out peace conference as long as he could, hoping for socialist revolution to begin in Germany
 * Socialist Revolution did not begin
 * Germany almost attacked Russia, in the end they signed treaty
 * Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
 * Russia had to give up all her western lands - Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia etc
 * Lost a lot of people, land, railway, iron ore and coal
 * Pay fine of 300 million gold roubles to Germany

__Chapter 12 - Civil War and Foreign Intervention__ __The Czech Legion__ __Reds and Whites__
 * May 1918, 45,000 Czech prisoners of war taken across Russia on trains to Vladivostok
 * Czech prisoners managed to take over control of a town
 * Within two weeks, Czech prisoners of war joined in teh fight
 * By 1918, nearly all of Trans-Siberian Railway and the towns along its route were in Czech hands
 * __**Komuch**__
 * Committee of members of Constituent Assembly
 * Set up by Czech prisoners
 * Consist of enemies of Bolsheviks
 * **__Red Army__**
 * New Bolshevik army
 * Troubles of organizing it:
 * Find officers to lead army, most troops were raw recruits
 * Solution: Appoint former officers of the Tsar's army
 * Threatened them with family if they ran away
 * **__"Whites"__**
 * Opposition of the Red Army (Reds)
 * Most were Socialist Revolutionaries, others democrats
 * Everyone who opposed Bolsheviks
 * 1918, four White Armies attacking heartland of Russia - held by Bolsheviks
 * White Armies supported by foreign armies, send by allies - Countries on whose side Russia fought during Great War
 * Fanya Kaplan shot Lenin 3 times at point blank range in the neck, Lenin survived

__Red Terror__
 * Cheka, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky, head quarters in Lubyanka street in Moscow
 * Tortured prisoners to extract confessions
 * Red army form of terror:
 * killed many people for not obeying his orders, that he issued
 * Trotsky very good military leader
 * Made sure Red army was effective and united fighting force
 * Red army gradually began to win civil war

__Chapter 13 - One Step Backwards... War Communism and the Nep__ __War Communism__ __The New Economic Policy__ __The 1923 Constitution__ __Lenin's Death__
 * Measures that Bolsheviks took to organize industry and food supplies in areas under their control
 * Succeeded: Red army was supplied with food and weapons
 * Failed: Share Russia's wealth equally
 * Countryside, peasants decided no point in growing more food than they needed for themselves.
 * Results in food shortage
 * Kronstadt
 * March 1921
 * Revolt of 10,000 sailors
 * A naval base near Petrograd
 * Was loyal to Bolsheviks, now revolted against them
 * Sailors were captures or killed in teh ened by Bolsheviks
 * **__New Economic Policy__**
 * New policy so that there wouldn't be any more uprisings
 * Step backwards to old capitalist system
 * Food production went back up.
 * Industrial output increased
 * Start of 1923, new constitution with new name
 * **__"Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"__**
 * Consists of Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Caucasus
 * 1922 - 1923, Lenin had many strokes
 * He died in January 1924

Summary: Chapter 11: Decrees from the Sovnarkom, which led to the Constituent Assembly and in the end the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Russia, Germany and Austria which results in a civil war. Chapter 12: Czech Legion, Reds and Whites, Red Terror Chapter 13: War Communism, New economic Policy, 1923 Constitution and then Lenin's death

Questions: When did Lenin die? January 1924 When did Lenin get stroke?