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Industrial and Agricultural Changes - Towards a Command Economy - Coggle…

- - - - it was a core economic policy
      - this meant that the state took control of industry
  - - - he believed the socialist economy would be more efficient and would lead to the end of inequality
  - - - it brought back worker discipline, with higher pay for the most productive
      - these bodies also appointed specialist to run factories
- - - - whilst food prices were affordable, the price of factory-made goods increased because of communist policies
    - - some groups made more money than others from new system and trade with other countries remained lower than 1913 levels
    - - Russia also remained a one-party state
  - - - argues that Stalin's receptiveness to the NEP in 1921 was staged
        
        '... Stalin delivered a blast against the NEP at the Twelfth Party Congress in April 1923, just a month after Lenin was incapacitated by strokes. Stalin charged that the two-year-old policy " exposed [the party] to the corrupting influence of NEP elements. "Worse yet, it nurtured the growth of nationalistic and reactionary thinking, which has "acquired many supporters among Soviet officials" and "has penetrated even into some of the party institutions."
- - - - ' At heart, "War Communism" is a contradiction in terms, a conceptual trap that has hindered more than it has helped to make sense of Bolshevik attitudes and behaviour before 192. The only reality assumed by War Communism was retrospective, that is, as a foil against which could be highlighted more "realistic", or even "human" policies. Other than to interpolate later Communism party discourse, it should be dropped from our vocabulary
    - - 'Although militarily successful, war communism failed to transform Russia into a socialist society. By 1921, the worsening political and economic situation demanded another approach'
      - 'The economic situation looked bleak: a devastated transportation network, empty factories, rampant inflation, recalcitrant peasants, famine and accompanying epidemics, high unemployment, little trade, and distinctly non revolutionary, if not hostile, International relations