Why was the NEP introduced?
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- Why was the NEP introduced?
- War Communism's impact on industry
- By 1920 the rouble was 1% of its 1917 worth
- Military needs were given priority so there was less manpower and resources.
- Grain requisitioning
- Less food was available after the Cheka requisition units terrorised the countryside between 1918 and 1921.
- Famine in 1921
- Occurred because of a combination of grain requisitioning, drought and the effects of the war.
- Foreign help was too late to make a difference
- Occurred because of a combination of grain requisitioning, drought and the effects of the war.
- Tambov Rising
- SR peasant armies
- Took over areas of the countryside.
- Reds destroyed them so by summer 1921 peasant resistence was completely broken.
- Used poison gas, hostages, etc.
- Discontent within the party
- Democratic Centralists and Workers' Opposition
- Kronstadt
- Kronstadt Rising
- February 1921
- Workers' Opposition accused the Bolsheviks of losing touch with the proletariat.
- Workers crossed to Kronstadt naval base to demonstrate
- Kronstadt Manifesto
- Wanted freedom and end of the one-party state
- Trotsky's Red Army stormed Kronstadt after protestors rejected an ultimatum
- War Communism's impact on industry
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