Effects?

Urban population decreased - decline of 50% of people living in main cities because of conscription and moving to rural areas for food.
Rationing - food prices rise as food becomes scarce, however wages do not increase, inflation is 1,000,000%, and the bartering system was used as money became worthless
Peasants - resistance to requisitioning, refusal to give up their grain to the state, quotas were high, not enough grain available to plant for succeeding years as grain needed for food, production of grain (1913-1921): 80 --> 37.6 million tonnes, quota for animals, production decreased
Famine of 1921 - the 1920 drought affected grain production, poor harvest 1920-1921, 1921: 1 in 5 of the population were starving, 7 million died, Americans assisted the Russians to provide food for 10 million Russians
Reaction from the people - accepted it at first, but by 1921 there was increased resistance from the peasants and the urban population against WC, Krondstadt Mutiny 1921 - "the flash that lit up reality"

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