How far do you agree that Trotsky's leadership of the Red Army was the most important reason for Bolshevik successes in Russia after the period October/ November 1917-24?
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- How far do you agree that Trotsky's leadership of the Red Army was the most important reason for Bolshevik successes in Russia after the period October/ November 1917-24?
- Trotsky's leadership
- Weaknesses of the Whites
- Changing economic policies
- State Capitalism
- Decree on land.
- Confiscated land from land owners.
- Redistributed to the peasants
- Made food shortages worse
- Workers couldn't afford machinery.
- Met promise of land from April Theses.
- Decree of workers control.
- Gave workers control of factories.
- Couldn't run factories effectively.
- Gave themselves more holiday and shorter working hours.
- Fixed rising inflation
- Army takes control of banks.
- Scrapped currency.
- Barter system
- October 1917
- Needed to save Russia's failing economy.
- Needed to pull out of WW1.
- Decree on land.
- War communism
- When civil war broke out.
- Helped the army
- Industry
- Decree on Nationalisation.
- Large industries liable to nationalisation.
- No compensation
- Old managers brought back.
- Private enterprise made illegal.
- Strikes made illegal.
- Shortage of workers due to war.
- Consumer goods industries were unable to function.
- Geared to war effort.
- Decree on Nationalisation.
- Summer 1918
- Agriculture
- Grain requisitioning
- Believed Kulaks were hoarding grain.
- To force prices to rise.
- Squads seized grain.
- Resistance was met with brutality.
- Peasants stopped growing grain .
- Subsistence farming.
- Believed Kulaks were hoarding grain.
- Grain requisitioning
- Inflation made money worthless.
- Transport system collapsed.
- Famine caused 5-10 million deaths. Needed aid from USA
- Achieved its main aim.
- New Economic Policy (NEP)
- Kronstadt Rebellion caused Lenin to change his mind.
- 1921
- Small scale industries returned to original owners.
- Industrial output recovered rapidly
- Heavy industry and banks remained under state control
- Grain requisitioning ended.
- Replaced by small tax paid in grain
- Agricultural out put soared.
- Peasants could sell surplus.
- Rouble was revalued bringing back some economic stability.
- Private trade was permitted.
- Increased product availability.
- Split the Bolsheviks
- Bukharin felt Russia's economy needed to grow rapidly.
- Trotsky feared it was a return to capitalism.
- State Capitalism
- Lenin's leadership
- Context
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