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Lenin's Russia
Economic policies
- In 1918, War Communism was the first economic policy introduced by Lenin, this extend the state control over every aspect of the economy, and food and supplies were requisitioned from farmers and workers
- Many Russian peasents responded by producing less rather than have it requisitioned by the government which caused famine in Russia as well a massive decrease in agricultural output
- Lenin replaced War Communism with the New Economic Policy (NEP), he believed that WC failed due to the Russia's peasents not possessing the appropriate sensibilities needed
- The War Communism was abandoned in 1921 as revolts all over Russia and sailors in Kronstadt forced Lenin to abandon his economic policy
- NEP: allowed for the restoration of a limited system of private enterprises; peasents were allowed to sell their surplus and encouraged ag. production. Small businesses/ factories were allowed to make a profit. Lenin said the NEP 'state capitalism' was only a temporary measure
Russia Civil War
- Counter revolutionaries were known as the 'Whites', they were made up of the Orthodox Church, industrialists and the old aristocracy
- Between 1917-1920 the 'Reds and Whites' fought for control over Russia
- Whites would be eventually defeated by Trotsky and his army by 1920
- Many western countries such as UK and USA supported whites as they did not want the influence of communism to spread to their countries
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Lenin
- Pragmatic and careful with his approach to establish a communist state
- Used fear to control the Russian population
- Died January 1924 and was entombed in a mausoleum and was effectively martyred in Russia
- Lenin left a partially completed apparatus of communism in Russia, his successor would be the one to finish what Lenin had started