A Level Russia The Belshevik consolidation of power summary

A detailed summary of the Belshevik consolidation of power handout for A Level students studying Russia, including:

• Socialism
• Marxism
• Leninism
• Reasons for the Bolshevik victory in 1917
• The Bolsheviks’ aims in 1917:
• Reforms following the October Revolution
• The outbreak of Civil War, 1918
• Reasons for the Bolshevik victory in the Civil War
• War Communism
• The Red Terror
• The Kronstadt Rebellion
• Reasons for the Bolshevik consolidation of power between 1917 and 1921
• New Economic Policy (NEP)
• Reasons for the Bolshevik consolidation of power between 1917 and 1924/28
• The impact of War Communism and NEP:
  War Communism
• Mistakes made by Lenin prior to his death (1924)
• Changes introduced by the Bolsheviks between 1917 and 1928
• The extent to which the Bolsheviks had consolidated power during the 1920s