- An elected council of people's commissars that ruled Russia
- Lenin was the chairman
- Set up 26th October 1917
Poliburo
- Set up on 18th August 1917
- It was the top of the Bolshevik party and was set up to decide questions too urgent to be decided by the central committee
- The Poliburo sidelined the government
- For much of 1919-1991 it was effectively the Government
Nomeklatura
- Set up in 1923
- It was a list of jobs that were appointed by the communist party officials
- Meaning that you could only get the job if you were a communist
Treaty of Brest-litovst
- This ended Russia's involvement in the war
- Signed on March 3rd 1918
- Lenin had to sign it because he needed to concentrate on the civil war
- Russia had to concede a lot of land
- E.g. Russia lost 26% of railways
Constituent assembly
- It was meant to be an elected committee
- The elections were held in late 1917
- The Bolsheviks won 175 seats out of 707
- The social revolutionaries won 370
- At the first meeting on 18th January 1918 Lenin used the red guard to shut it down
The Civil War
- A number of parties that opposed the bolshevik rule grouped together - the whites
- They tried to overthrow the Bolsheviks (the reds) but failed
- It lasted from October 1917- March 1921
- It was because of the civil war that war communism was introduced
- Trotsky was a key player
- The greens didn't fight for either side - they just fought to protect their land
Other
- On December 1st all non-Bolshevik newspapers were banned
- On December 20th the Cheka was set up
- On December 27th baks were under Bolshevik control
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