Bolshevik Consolidation of Power 1918-24: Economic and Social Developments
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- Economic and Social Developments 1918-24
- Red Terror
- Tambov Revolt 1920-21
- 70,000 Peasants rose up against grain requisitioning - 100,000 Red Army troops sent to rush revolt
- Outbreaks of peasant revolts - 155 across Russia in Feb 1921
- Kronstadt Uprising 1921
- 30,000 sailors rebelled and demanded the end of the one party state
- Ringleaders were shot, 15,000 imprisoned and named as White Traitors
- Sailors were supportive of the October Revolution
- Political Enemies
- 1918-20 1/2 Million executed
- Tactic to spread fear among the people by arresting anyone of all parts of society e.g children, women
- Setting up of labour and concentration camps - not as orderly as Stalin
- Lenin wounded in an assassination attempt August 1918 - spark of Red Terror
- Socialist Revolutionaries (SR), Mensheviks, Anarchists rounded up, imprisoned and executed
- Tambov Revolt 1920-21
- State Capitalism
- Conditions
- 1918 Bread Ration In Petrograd - workers on 50 grams per day due to blockade of trade
- 5 million died due to starvation and disease
- Typhoid Epidemic 1920 - 3 Million died, few doctors due to civil war
- Problems
- Failed organisation of factories - Output Shrank
- Civil War effected resources and output
- Workers stole stock and gave themselves high wages
- Compromise - between capitalism and socialism
- Divisions in Party - Many opposed and demanded more radical measures
- Greater state control of the economy
- Nationalisation of Banks, trade and railway
- Vesenkha - National council of economy
- GOLERO - state commission to organise production and distribution of electricity
- Conditions
- War Communism
- Effects
- Requistioning
- Labour discipline and rationing
- Nationalisation
- NEP
- Political Impact
- Ban on Factions 1921
- Cheka became GPU 1922 - more powerful and vigilant
- Attack on religion 1921
- 1923 Nomenklatura 5000 party and government posts drawn up
- Economic Impact
- 'Scissor Crisis'
- Food Prices fell below industrial goods
- 1926 Production levels reached 1913 levels again
- Nepmen - 25,000 traders in 1925, Making up 75% of trade
- 'Scissor Crisis'
- Political Impact
- Red Terror
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