State Capitalism

Question 1

What was state capitalism?

Answer 1

a compromise economy between capitalism and socialism

Question 2

What did many Bolsheviks want as opposed to state capitalism ? (3)

Answer 2

They wanted radical measures.

• nationalisation of all businesses
• abolition of money
• trade determined by peoples needs not profit

Question 3

How did the Decree on Land of October 1917 give peasants an incentive to continue to produce grain?

Answer 3

although ‘Private ownership of land shall be abolished for ever’, land was not actually nationalised but allowed to ‘pass into the use of all those who cultivate it’

Question 4

As opposed to nationalisation, what did the Decree on Workers Control of Factories November 1917 acknowledge?

Answer 4

they simply acknowledged the fact that many factories had already been taken over by workers

Question 5

In order to develop greater state control over the economy what 3 things did the Bolsheviks establish?

Answer 5

• nationalisation of banks, external trade, railways
• Veshenka (Supreme Council of the National Economy)
• GEOLRO (a special state Commission)

Question 6

When did Bolsheviks nationalise

• banks
• external trade
• railways?

Answer 6

banks-December 1917
external trade June 1918
railways- June and September 1918

Question 7

When was the Veshenka, the Supreme Council of the National Economy, established?

Answer 7

December 1917

Question 8

What was the responsibility of the Veshenka ?

Answer 8

took responsibility for ‘all existing institutions for the regulation of economic life’

Question 9

When was GOELRO, a special State Commission, established ?

Answer 9

1920

Question 10

What was the Veshenka, December 1917?

Answer 10

the Supreme Council of the National Economy

Question 11

What is the GOELRO?

Answer 11

a special State Commission (1920)

Question 12

What was the role of the GOELRO, the special State Commission (1920)?

Answer 12

role to organise the production and distribution of electricity thought Russia

Question 13

What establishment was to become one of the Bolsheviks most greatest achievements?

Answer 13

the establishment of GOELRO , a special State Commission 1920

Question 14

What did Lenin assert regarding the GOELRO?

Answer 14

“Communism equal Soviet power plus electrification”

Question 15

What was the problem with state capitalism in regards to factories?

Answer 15

workers failed to organise their factories efficiently and output shrank at the time it was most needed

Question 16

What was a problem with workers in factories (2)?

Answer 16

• some would award themselves unsustainable pay rises

- others would help themselves to stock and equipment

Question 17

Reported by who, were there cases of workers spending time making penknives out of bits of machinery or shoe soles out of leather conveyor belts, to barter on the black markets?

Answer 17

Viktor Serge

Question 18

What did Viktor Serge report?

Answer 18

that there were cases of workers spending time making penknives out of bits of machinery or shoe soles out of leather conveyor belts to barter on the black market

Question 19

What was the main problem with the failure of workers in the factories?

Answer 19

They lacked the skills needed for successful management

Question 20

Why were there problems with state capitalism during the civil war in regards to factories ?

Answer 20

-shortage of raw materials caused further industrial output in the Bolshevik held areas to plummet

Question 21

What was the GOELRO plan?

Answer 21

the first-ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development.t became the prototype for subsequent Five-Year Plans drafted by Gosplan.

Question 22

Who drafted the GOELRO plan?

Answer 22

the Gosplan