Bolshevik Consolidation of Power : ECONOMIC (2)

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  • Created by: joy.yuma
  • Created on: 01-06-18 12:58

New Economic Policy 1921-1928

Causes

  • Concessions to the peasants needed for survival of the regime
  • Kronstadt Rebellion

Effects

  • Grain Requisitioning abolished - 'tax in kind'  , could sell surplus grain
  • Ban on private trade removed - food and goods flow more easily between countryside and towns. Rationing abolished. Money economy BACK !
  • Small businesses reopened - goods e.g shoes clothes available for sale
  • State control - large scale heavy industries e.g coal
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  • 1923 - cereal production increased by 23% compared w/ 1920
  • scissor crisis - industrial goods price increase (short supply), food prices falling
  • Rise of Nepmen (private traders) - Showed their wealth ( brothels, restaurants)
  • NEP + Peasants : not producing enough grain - exports suffered Agriculture remained backwards , gap between grain and peasant desired goods , peasants held back their grain
  • NEP + Urban workers : Unemployment rose steeply , wages remained low , women = forced to move from skilled to unskilled jobs + pushed out when Red Army demobilised , increasing crime rates , poor quality housing + overcrowding
  • Grain crisis 1927-1928 (STALIN) : The Urals- Siberian method - grain requisitioning backed up by emergency measures . Relationship between gov and peasants broke down

Overall summary

NEP seen as a betrayal by old Bolsheviks , Generally worked better than war communism  

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