Communist Economy

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Communist Continuity and Change: Economy
- Stalin
  - In 1927 announced the starts of:
    - Five-Year Plan
  - collectivisation
    - The amalgamation of several villages into collecive farms
      - Getting grain to feed the expaniding industrial workforce and pay for imports of industrial equipment
        implemented by force
        destruction of Kulaks in order to force the peasantry into submission
        incrrease in control over peasantry because they killed or exiled any 'kulaks'
        By March 1930 over half of the peasants had been collectivised (90% by 1939)
    - Failures
      - Massive opposition - burning crops and killing livestock
      - Inexpereinced managers
        Decline in food production
        Famine in Ukraine in 1932 - 1933 - over 3 million deaths
        Soviet Union did not recover pre-war levels of grain production until 1939
        Millions driven off lands forced into labour camps
        Destruction of traditional peasant way of lie based on family farm, the commune, and the church
- Lenin
  - By 1918 Russia was facing economic collapse.
By 1921 industrial output was 20% of what it had been in 1914
- Bolsheviks won the civil war but failed to increase factory production
- Peasants resisted food requisitioning - growing less grain rather than handing it over

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