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War Communism
- Transform society and
economy 1917-18?
- 2nd Dec 1917 - Supreme
council of national economy
(central control of Russian
economy).
- 4th Dec 1917 - army used
to take control of banks.
- 21st Jan 1918 - declare all foreign debts incurred
by Tsar and PG were illegal and will not be paid.
- All landowners lost their estates.
- Money abolished at one stage.
- All landowners lost their estates.
- 21st Jan 1918 - declare all foreign debts incurred
by Tsar and PG were illegal and will not be paid.
- State Capitalism - workers took
control of factories and set their
own hours of work and level of
production. Production slumped
- produced a black market.
- Civil war - economy had to be
geared towards this.
- Civil war - economy had to be
geared towards this.
- 2nd Dec 1917 - Supreme
council of national economy
(central control of Russian
economy).
- Impact
- Allowed
communists to
win civil war.
- Failed to stop
fall in industry
production -
1921 end of
war
communism.
- Failed to stop
fall in industry
production -
1921 end of
war
communism.
- Allowed gov. to
concentrate on production
of military equipment.
- 1917 - 1920 = over half of
urban pop. disappeared - class
Lenin hoped to build new
socialist society.
- Decline due to number of factor =
death in civil war, famine or back
to villages to find food.
- Decline due to number of factor =
death in civil war, famine or back
to villages to find food.
- As a result of civil
war and war
communism -
major famine in
1921.
- Peasants stopped
producing so much grain,
combined with drought
and war = death of 2
million.
- Peasant uprisings - force
Lenin to reappraise
economic policy.
- Peasant uprisings - force
Lenin to reappraise
economic policy.
- Peasants stopped
producing so much grain,
combined with drought
and war = death of 2
million.
- Allowed
communists to
win civil war.
- What was War
Communism?
- Supreme
economic
council to
run
economy.
- Nationalisation of
industry - all large
industries liable to
nationalisation without
compensation.
- Private trade banned.
- Grain surpluses seized
from peasants.
- Decline in use of money -
replaced by rationing
organised by the state.
- Use of terror, slave labour and
seizure of good and grain by the
state.
- Supreme
economic
council to
run
economy.
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