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Why the NEP 1921 - Coggle Diagram
Why the NEP 1921
Kronstadt Mutiny
- Revolt by sailors at naval base outside Petrograd
- increased pressure on govern. → the group had been a mainstay of the revolutionary
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- Mutiny over increase of power of Party & its officials at expense of workers
- slogan was 'soviets without Bolsheviks'
- wanted:
- Free elections
- Freedom of Speech
- Equal rations
- End of Grain requisitioning
- Eventually suppressed by RA
Key feature in Lenins decision to change the economic policy due to shock to the Bolshevik leadership
Economic considerations
- end of war industry had ground to a standstill
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- weakened by lack of food many Russians succumbed to diseased - small pox
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TAMBOV RISING
- Resentment of WC was in relation to forcible requisitioning of food & plans to get rid of the mir
- Resentment came to a head in a series of uprisings in 1920-21
- Most serious uprising was TAMBOV In central Russia - peasants reacted violently to requisitioning teams
- Revolt ended after 50,000 RA troops sent into the area
Why?
- By 1921 hopes that WC would convert communist ideology into meaningful policy was over
→ reality of social, economic & deterioration in political positions led govern. to abandon WC and replace it with the NEP
- ending of the CW produced a different situation which required a different response :