Mocks - Social Flashcards

1
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War Communsim dates

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1918 to 1921

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2
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War communism and maxist philosophy

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  • Contradicted as violent measures used
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3
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Min rationing w war communism

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  • 50g bread per day
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4
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Death toll war communism

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5 million peasants

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5
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When was Krondstadt mutiny

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1921

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6
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When was brest litovsk signed

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March 1918

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7
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When was new economic policy implemented

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March 1921

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8
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What replaced grain requsioning

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  • Food Tax
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9
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Impact of NEP: infrastructure

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  • Increased goventment investment thanks to tax on legalised activity
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10
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Compare grain requositioning to food tax

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  • Food tax in 1922 about half of requsioning in 1921
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11
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NEP Economic reform, peasantry

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  • Could sell grain on open market
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12
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Describe NEPmen

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  • Entrepreneurs who traded grain and agricultural goods between rural and towns
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13
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When was Scissors crisis

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1923

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14
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What was Scissors crisis

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  • Agricuture rebounded quicker
  • Industry slower
  • More food, less manuafactured goods
  • Food fell, manufactured goods expensive
  • Stopped the peasants from mechanising
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15
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NEP: Unemployment

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  • Incease unemployment as workshops had to make a profit
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16
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NEP overall

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  • Good
  • Only time since WW1 people on the whole prosperous
17
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Tsarist: Steel

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  • 9x increase between 1890 and 1900
18
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Tsarist: Cholera

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  • 1892
  • 300k dead
19
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Tsarist: Starvation

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  • Tambov
  • 1892
  • 2/3 peasants couldnt afford food
20
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Vishnagradsky saying

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  • We shall not eat we shall export
21
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Tsarism WW1 impact petrograd

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  • Population of petrograd
  • 2.4mill 1916
  • 740k 1920
22
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WW1 imact

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  • Workers faced hunger and possibility of conscription
  • Peasants faced conscripiona and lack of commodietes e.g Horses and Young men who had been taken for war
23
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Stolypin reforms

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  • National insurance
  • Early 1900’s