Lenin's New Society
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- Lenin's New Society
- War Communism
- Aimed to kickstart communism & supply Red Army
- Features - Nationalised industry + money, extra grain taken from peasants, private trade forbidden, controlled facories
- Consequence peasants hid or grew less grain, 1921 famine, no increase in factory output, peasants arrested or shot
- Kronstadt Mutiny - Feb 1921 - led to abandonment of the policy
- WW1
- Trotsky controlled nefotiations, Forced to accept Brest-Litovsk - wanted to form allies, No German revolution
- Russia lost: 34% pop, 32% land, 54% industry, 89% coalmines, 300m roubles
- The Whites
- Lots arrested, no set leader, 7000 killed in Red Terror
- Tsar was dead, unfamiliar with climate
- Lots from other countries - not as dedicated + language barriers
- Decrees
- For workers: limit 48hr weeks, insurance, holidays
- For peasants: land given out fairly, Russia left WW1
- More freedoms: marriage w/o a priest, divorce made easier
- Increase Bolsh control censorship, secret police, banks controlled
- NEP - 1921
- NEPMEN small private traders
- FOOD finally distributed - famine ended after 7 years, USSR started to prosper again
- Some peasants became kulaks - compromised communism with reality
- Re-introduce some capitalism, peasants sold grain & paid tax, small factories privately owned
- Civil War
- 1918-21 Bolsh won. Trotsky used discipline & leadership
- RED TERROR shot, hanged
- Trotsky made new red army, 300, 000 men, held their families hostage
- Cheka + arbitrary arrest kept white support down, or hidden
- March 1918 - 3 White armies invaded Petrograd+ Moscow, helped by countries scared of communism
- The Bolsheviks
- Controlled infrastructure + Cheka - USSR more dedicated
- Army had 1 strong leader (Trotsky) soldiers used to climate
- Lenin was ruthless & a great leader, would go to any lengths
- Initial
- 1st election - SRs had majority, Red Guard shut down Assembly
- Lenin opened Assembly of Soviets (Bolsh. majority) to pass all his laws
- Lenin knew if he failed in his promises he would lose power
- Roles of Lenin + Trotsky
- Workers trust govt. - upped production
- No power to church - not like Tsar
- Lenin got himself into power - no ancestry
- Still autocratic not much changed
- Trotsky - great leader, trusted, army stronger + USSR had more allies
- War Communism
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