War Communism

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Why did Lenin choose to move away from state capitalism?
The desperate situation the civil war caused
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What did political commissars do in factories?
Infiltrated them
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What area was given priority?
Military resources
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What % of the rouble's 1917 worth had it dropped to in 1920?
1%
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What did war communism do to agriculture?
Tightened state control
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What did war communism force peasants to do?
Produce more food
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Were the peasants resistant to change?
Yes
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Who did the Bolsheviks blame all resistance on?
Kulaks
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When were Cheka units sent to the countryside to forcibly take grain?
July 1918
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How many kulaks were publically hanged between 1918 and 1921?
100
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When did national famine occur?
1921
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What did Bukharin see war communism as?
True socialism
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Was war communism effective in the short term?
Yes
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What did the severity of war communism cause?
Increasing unpopularity for the Bolsheviks
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What did the Tambov rising see?
Peasants taking over areas of land
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When was peasant resistance completely broken?
Summer of 1921
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When did the Moscow and Petrograd strikes occur?
1921
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What was there a shortage of in urban areas?
Fuel
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What were the names of the opposition groups within the party?
Democratic Centralists and Workers' Opposition
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