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Aims and results of policies: Lenin's authoritarian control and the extent to which it was achieved Notes
Lenin’s Authoritarian Control: Aims and Results
Lenin’s Authoritarian Control
Aims
Consolidate Bolshevik power after October 1917 by eliminating rivals (Mensheviks, SRs, liberals).
Suppress counter-revolution during Civil War (1918–1921).
Create a one-party state guided by Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Control society through propaganda, censorship, and terror.
Maintain unity within the Party by banning factionalism (1921).
Note
Lenin justified authoritarianism as “dictatorship of the proletariat,” but in practice it became dictatorship of the party.
Civil War context gave Lenin the excuse to use extraordinary measures.
By his death (1924), he had created the foundations of a one-party, centralized, authoritarian state.
Methods and Results
Banning Opposition Parties (1918–1921): Mensheviks and SRs outlawed, leaders arrested, exiled, or executed.
Constituent Assembly Dissolved (Jan 1918): Lenin justified by saying “we are not bound by it.” Marked the end of multiparty democracy.
Cheka (secret police): Created December 1917, used terror, executions, and labor camps against counter-revolutionaries (Red Terror 1918–1922).
War Communism (1918–1921): Centralized control of economy, grain requisitioning, harsh punishments. Secured food for Red Army but caused famine and resentment.
Kronstadt Revolt (1921): Suppressed brutally, showing Lenin’s unwillingness to tolerate even former allies.
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