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ECONOMY
Post-War
WWII had left country in disarray, with 25 million people homeless
industry 1/3 in 1945 than 1940, agriculture 1/2
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heavy industry output increased by 80% between 1945-50, fastest growing economy in the world
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took reparations from east Germany, but didnt have infrastructure to transport so much of it was left to rust
NEP - 'one step back, two steps forward'
successes
restored industry to pre-war levels, restabilising the economy
agriculture production restored rapidly, as unpopular grain requisitioning ended and replaced with 50% tax - prodnalog
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failures
rapid agricultural growth did not align with slow and steady industrial growth, scissors crisis, further alienated peasantry as they couldn't buy goods
allowed the corruption of capitalism to return, with unemployment rising and women the first to be sacked, prostitution grew - 39% of urban men regularly used prostitutes
divided the party as it was too capitalist, the left of the party like Trotsky detested it, but the right believed it to be a necessary transitional period
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Lenin
War Communism
Successes
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had communist principles, money abolished, private trade banned
failures
5 million dead in famine, cannibalism, long term resentment, alienation
people fled cities to find more food in towns, industrial production 1/5 of pre-war levels
grain requisitioning unpopular - prodrazvyorstka - caused Tambov Uprising that took a year to put down, with bombs
Cheka reported 118 uprisings in feb 1921 alone, huge civil unrest