Early Soviet Government

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Across
  1. 4. Secret police organisation established to suppress opposition
  2. 6. Soviet that controlled key infrastructure like railways and posts
  3. 8. Beneficiaries of a decree that introduced an 8-hour working day
  4. 10. One of Lenin’s promises to the Russian people (starts with P)
  5. 12. Commissar for Education and Enlightenment
  6. 16. Group given land through the Land Decree
  7. 18. One of Lenin’s promises to the Russian people (starts with B)
  8. 19. The elected assembly dissolved by the Bolsheviks after one day
  9. 22. First Commissar for Internal Affairs
  10. 23. The Soviet's preferred alternative to a police force
  11. 24. Number of original members in the Sovnarkom
Down
  1. 1. Bolsheviks used these to introduce reforms and consolidate power
  2. 2. Type of justice used to replace the traditional legal system
  3. 3. Liberal political party banned by the Bolsheviks
  4. 5. Type of government that ruled before the Bolsheviks seized power
  5. 7. Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the first Soviet government
  6. 9. One of Lenin’s promises to the Russian people (starts with L)
  7. 11. Faction that believed strict control was needed
  8. 12. Faction that believed in individual freedom and minimal control
  9. 13. Held the Commissariat for Nationalities
  10. 14. Rival socialist group, some of whom initially joined Sovnarkom
  11. 15. Gave the Petrograd Soviet control over the military
  12. 17. Leader of the Bolshevik Party and first Chairman of the Sovnarkom
  13. 20. First Commissar for Agriculture
  14. 21. The new government formed by the Bolsheviks after October 1917