HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Show Trial, Breadbasket, New Soviet Man
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Hold elections for constituent assembly and don"t win, moderate socialists do; so they. War communism (lenin): command economy use the power of the red guards against opposition. They are trying to correct the result of the election using their military. Wwi, 2 revolutions, border wars & civil war 1914 to 1921. Material deprivation: strikes, food riots, peasant unrest (confiscations) Besprizornye | homeless children | gangs | 1921: 4. 5 million. Sell surpluses; de-nationalization retail & small industries. Pro nep: capitalists (nep men), old elites, peasants (confiscations!) Nep defines economic policy for soviet union. Nep represents moderation, allows peasants to sell surplus. Effects of wwi + civil war: people, animals, (fertile) land, transport routes. War communism 1918-21 e. g. crop requisitions peasant protests < land cultivation. War-time aid (e. g. france, belgium) + postwar. Russian famine aid from sept. 1921 | by aug. 1922: millions fed / day in 19,000. Becomes general secretary of communist party 1922. Bolsheviks on contender trotsky | exile 1929.
