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=__ Awesome Stuff: __= By order of the 1st decree, all lands from the landlords, church, nobles, and the tsar now belongs to the people. By order of the 2nd decree, peace will be made with all of Russia’s enemies By order of the 3rd decree, all workers will now work an 8-hour day and 48- hour week time. By order of the 5th decree, all workers of Russia are now insured. By order of the 6th decree, all non-Bolshevik newspapers are now banned until further notice. By order of the 7th decree, all Russian liberal party members are hereby criminals of Russia and are subjected to arrest. By order of the 8th decree, the Chekas are now formed. By order of the 9th decree, all factories now belongs to the workers By order of the 10th decree, all marriage does not require any traditional rituals.

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These are the first 10 decrees announced by Lenin and his Sovnarkom in between 8 November 1917 until the end of the year December 31.



Here is a picture of a regular day how people are lining up to see Lenin's. His body is still preserved today and can be found in Moscow.

=__ Notes: __=

__** Chapter 11 – Peace at Any Price **__
 * Decrees of Sovnarkom: **
 * Began issuing decrees on the day it was created
 * 8 November 1917 – decree on **land**, which took land away from the Tsar, nobles, church, and other landlords.
 * 12 November – decree on **peace**, which immediately made peace with Russia’s enemies.
 * 12 November – a decree on **work**, laid rules about over time and holidays with an 8-hour day and 48- hour week time for all industrial workers.
 * 14 November – decree on **unemployment insurance**, which promised to insure all workers.
 * 1 December – decree on the **press**, which banned all non-Bolshevik newspapers.
 * 11 December – **banned Russia’s liberal party** and ordered the arrest of its leaders (Constitutional Democratic Party).
 * 20 December – Lenin creates a **political police forc**e -> “All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to fight Counter-Revolution and Espionage” a.k.a Cheka.
 * 27 December – decree on **worker’s control**, which gave all Russian factories for the committees of workers to control.
 * 31 December – a decree on **marriage**, which allowed couples to have marry without having any religious rituals. This also made divorce much easier.
 * The Constituent Assembly: **
 * Elections were held for Russia’s new parliament on November 1917.
 * Named **Constituent assembly**.
 * First free elections in the history of Russia.
 * The Bolsheviks were badly beaten in the election.
 * The Socialist Revolutionaries gained more seats than all the other parties put together.
 * The Constituent Assembly first met on 18 January 1918.
 * Less than 24 hours after the meeting, the Sovnarkom ordered to cease all future meetings.
 * The Bolshevik Red guarded killed and wounded more than a thousand people who protested, supporting the Constituent Assembly.
 * Red Guards closed the assembly permanently.
 * 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** was the Russian Commissar, minister of foreign affairs
 * Dragged out peace conference as long as he could, hoping for socialist revolution to begin in Germany
 * 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, and Georgia
 * 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: **
 * May 1918, 45,000 Czech prisoners of war taken across Russia on trains to **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
 * Reds and Whites:
 * "Whites": **
 * Opposition of the Red Army (Reds)
 * Most were Socialist Revolutionaries, others democrats
 * Everyone who opposed Bolsheviks
 * **White Armies** supported by foreign armies/allies
 * Fanya Kaplan shot Lenin 3 times at point blank range in the neck- Lenin survives
 * The Red Terror: **
 * Cheka, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky, head quarters in Lubyanka/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: **
 * 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
 * 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
 * "**By taking a step backwards, they would later be able to take two steps toward towards communism**"
 * The 1923 Constitution: **
 * 1923 there was a new constitution with a new name
 * **"Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"**
 * Consists of Russia, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Caucasus
 * Lenin's Death: **
 * Lenin had many **strokes** in between 1922 - 1923
 * Died on January 1924

=__ Summary: __= There are 3 main things that happened in 1917- the Sovnarkom came into power and began issuing decrees, elections for a new Constituent failed, and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended the war between Russia and Germany. In 1923, Russia had been renamed into the USSR. Unfortunately, Lenin did not live up to witness the USSR's future growth into one of the world's superpowers.

=__** Questions: **__=
 * 1) What did Lenin strived for in communism the most before his death?
 * 2) War communism and the NEP, which was more effective and why?
 * 3) What were the differences between the "Reds" and the "Whites"?
 * 4) Explain how Russia was sorta "forced" into signing the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
 * 5) What were the 3 main factors that caused the Red Terror?

=__** Citation: **__= // Lenin //. Photograph. // Lenin //. Tryon University. Web. 27 Oct. 2010.