Agricultural policies of Lenin Flashcards
What were the two main agricultural polices of Lenin?
-war communism
-The new economic policy.
Why was war communism introduced? (highly restrictive economic policies).
-efforts toward the civil war- the Bolsheviks wanted to win.
What was the key feature of war communism?
-forcefully taking grain off peasants who had ‘hoarded’ supplies.
What was the policy for war communism?
-forced centralisation + food for army
-nationalisation
-Military needs priority.
How was grain requisitioning enforced?
-cheka 1918 sent by force
1918-21- Cheka systematically terrorised the countryside.
How many ‘Kulaks’ were hung under the system of ‘grain requisitioning’?
-100.
Who were blamed for food shortages?
The Kulaks
What was the name of the uprising which caused by the systematic terror caused by the cheka administering grain requisitioning?
The Kronstadt uprising.
What happened in the Kronstadt uprising?
-protest of workers and sailors
-wanted no more Bolsheviks
-violently supressed.
What were the consequences of war communism?
-famine
-US had to provide food for 10M Russians.
What did Lenin use famine to destroy?
-orthodox church
-shot priests.
Why was the NEP introduced?
-meet need for food.
-state terror had not made the peasants produce more.
What did the NEP restore?
-a mixed economy.
What were the main policies of the new economic policy?
-grain requisitioning stopped and replaced with tax
-peasants could keep and sell surpluses.
-public market restored.
Who were the main opponents of war communism?
-Trotsky
-Prob.
