Lenin's First and Second Government

Lenin Government

12th Cabinet of Russia (as Russian SFSR)
Date formed8 November, 1917
Date dissolved21 January, 1924
People and organisations
Head of governmentVladimir Lenin
Member partiesBolsheviks
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917–1918)
Status in legislatureMajority (1917–1921)
Sole legal party (from 1921)
Opposition cabinetKomuch (1918)
Ufa Directory (1918)
Omsk Government (1918–1920)
Priamurye Government (1920–1923)
Opposition partiesSocialist-Revolutionaries (1917–1921)
Mensheviks (1917–1921)
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (1918–1921)
History
Incoming formationAlexander Kerensky's Second Cabinet
Outgoing formationAlexei Rykov's Cabinet
PredecessorAlexander Kerensky
SuccessorAlexei Rykov
An early Sovnarkom decree, introducing the "Western European calendar" in Russia. The decree prescribed that 14 February, 1918 (New style) would immediately follow 31 January, 1918 (Old style)

Following the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin became the head of the new government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. It was known officially as the Council of People's Commissars, effectively his cabinet. Ten of the council's fourteen members would later be killed during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.[1][2]

  1. ^ "First council of people's Commiserate based on the original Soviet decree by Lenin. "Verified by edition: Decrees of the Soviet government. T.I. Moscow, State Publishing House of Political Literature, 1957."".
  2. ^ Ellman, Michael (2002). "Soviet Repression Statistics: Some Comments" (PDF). Europe-Asia Studies. 54 (7): 1151–1172. doi:10.1080/0966813022000017177. S2CID 43510161. The best estimate that can currently be made of the number of repression deaths in 1937–38 is the range 950,000–1.2 million, i.e . about a million. This is the estimate which should be used by historians, teachers and journalists concerned with twentieth century Russian—and world—history

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