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