a. How did the Bolsheviks consolidate control?
Once the Bolsheviks had taken power in October/November 1917 the party then had to consolidate control over the country. Initially the new regime passed a series of decrees on land, unleashed class warfare and agreed a ceasefire with Germany. However, opposition to the Bolsheviks was mounting and as a punitive peace treaty was finally signed removing it from the First World War, Russia was plunged into a horrific...