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Encyclopedia: War communism
War communism or wartime communism (Russian: Военный коммунизм; 1918 - 1921) was the economic policy adopted by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War with the aim of keeping towns and the Red Ar...
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War Communism was the name given to the economic system that existed in Russia from 1918 to 1921. War Communism was introduced by Lenin to combat the economic problems brought on by the civil war in Russia. It was a combination of emergency measures and socialist dogma. War Communism had six principles:
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"War Communism", the Red Terror, and Lenin's Famine In fact, so-called "War Communism" began before serious fighting erupted, and continued after the Whites had been decisively defeated. It was not a wartime expedient; it was the policy that Lenin wanted to pursue in war or peace.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on War Communism (Soviet history), in the history of the Soviet Union, economic policy applied by the Bolsheviks during the period of the Russian Civil War (1918–20). More exactly, the policy of War Communism lasted from June 1918 to March 1921. The policy’s chief features were...
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The ultimate responsibility for this brutal episode in Soviet history--dubbed War Communism by the regime--lay with Lenin himself. Evidence of his fanatical spleen against the peasant victims lies in the state archives, as revealed in D. Volkogonov's biog raphy of the leader.
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A page in the Encyclopedia of Marxism One primary function of War Communism was the requisition of grain from the peasantry, in order to feed the starving urban population. The agricultural production in Russia declined since the outset of the First World War, and those who had food, hoarded it.
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During the Civil War the government decided to introduce what became known as War Communism. All companies were now nationalized and the government now...
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War Communism to NEP: The Road from Serfdom by Sheldon L. Richman; Department of History, George Mason University; The collapse of the productive forces surpassed anything of the kind that history had ever seen. Leon Trotsky on war communism'; Introduction; In March 1921, V. I. Lenin, ruler of revolutionary Russia,
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The essence of the peculiar "War Communism" was that we actually took from the peasant, all the surplus grain--and sometimes even not only surplus grain, but part of the grain the peasant required for food--to meet the requirements of the army and sustain the workers . . It was a temporary measure.
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Two authors of books dealing with anti-Semitism in Poland have extended the debate into the discussion of the relationship between Communism and anti-Semitism. The historian Krystyna Kersten has traced the historic as well as the immediate roots of anti-Semitism in postwar Poland.
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