The New Economic Policy
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- The New Economic policy
- What Lenin did
- at the 10th party congress 1921 Lenin announces:
- end of war communism and the start of the New Economic Policy
- war communism was only a temporary measure and that food requisitioning would be stopped
- peasants had to give a fraction of what they made and the rest could be sold on the free market
- intoduced a new currency that would solve inflation
- called it a tactical retreat in order to allow the economy to grow and preserve communist power
- war communism was only a temporary measure and that food requisitioning would be stopped
- the banning of factions
- did not want the party to split like the Brest-litovsk treaty in 1918
- end of war communism and the start of the New Economic Policy
- at the 10th party congress 1921 Lenin announces:
- Why
- the economic situation
- industrial production was a fraction of what it was pre WW1
- War Communism and its policy of grain requisitioning caused peasant uprisings
- the Tambov uprising needed Red Army units to be relocated it was that bad
- the communist government seemed to be at war with the majority of Russia- the peasants
- the first signs of a famine where occurring
- Growing opposition
- the growing economic problems lead communists to believe the gov. where becoming very centralised
- increased by trotsky's plan to extend conscription to civilian work
- Mensheviks started to gain support in duma at expence of the Bolsheviks
- a Workers opposition movement was occurring in response to government control over trade unions
- the growing economic problems lead communists to believe the gov. where becoming very centralised
- The Kronstadt Rebellion
- the Kronstadt base had three problems:
- Lenin and the Bolsheviks where almost excluding the Soviet from decision making. they didn't want a one party state
- wanted economic controls to be relaxed
- The Kronstadt rebels where mainly Ukrainian conscripts rather than the soldiers who had fought in the civil war
- Lenin and the Bolsheviks where almost excluding the Soviet from decision making. they didn't want a one party state
- wanted freedom of speech restored
- The Kronstadt rebels where mainly Ukrainian conscripts rather than the soldiers who had fought in the civil war
- wanted freedom of speech restored
- Trostsky sent elite red army soldiers to go kill them or send the to gulags
- the Kronstadt base had three problems:
- the economic situation
- effect of what Lenin did
- political
- loosening of economic control, tightening of politcal control
- all decisions made by Lenin + Politburo where binding on all communists
- called Democratic centralism
- NEP promoted greed and capitalism. most communists wanted it gone as soon as possible
- economic
- the majority of workers still worked in state run industries
- "the commanding heights of the economy" heavy industry, banking and foreign trade kept by gov.
- NEP caused a scissor crisis
- price of industrially produced products rose while the money people made for their produced decreased
- = people couldnt by industrially produced products such as shoes
- price of industrially produced products rose while the money people made for their produced decreased
- the majority of workers still worked in state run industries
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- What Lenin did
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