A timeline of the economic policies of both Lenin and Stalin from . This includes State Capitalism, War Communism, the New Economic Policy, the Great Turn and the following Five Year Plans.
state 1917
capitalism vesenkha established to direct the economy, nationalising banks and railways and
december cancelling foreign debts
war 1918 internal passports introduced to prevent workers from eeing cities having lost Petrograd
communism 60% of their workforce
Food Supplies Dictatorship established banning private trade and forcibly requisitioning
1920 Tambov peasant army of 70,000 responded to grain requisitioning squads when reserves
were empty ->
red army troops of 100,000 were deployed to put the revolt down
1921 30,000 sailors rebel at the Krondstat naval base in opposition of the food crisis ->
soldiers abandon the Cheka on orders to put down the rebellion and ring leaders are shot
and 15000 imprisoned
february Famine in the countryside due to depleted grain stores killing 5 million
Cheka reported 155 uprisings as a result
NEP 1922 Anglo-Soviet trade agreement
The Great 1927 15th party congress announcing an end to NEP and the beginning of the 1st 5 year plan
Turn december and collectivisation
1929 Policy introduced involving the ‘twenty ve thousanders’ who enforced collectivisation in
the countryside
1930 Stalin announces around 25% of grain producing areas will be collectivised by the end of
January the year
decree gave local party organisations power to use ‘necessary measures’ against the
kulaks
1932 fall in the grain harvest and grain requisitioning whilst exporting it sparked a famine
o cially lasting until 1934 killing c.7 million
construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, by labour camp prisoners killing 22,000,
commences connecting the city to 5 seas and lasting until 1937
the construction of the Moscow metro occurred at the same time to help the city deal with
rural to urban migration and aimed to showcase achievements of a socialist state with
chandeliers and mosaics
2nd 5 year 1933 the famine reaches a high point known as the ‘Holodomor genocide’ killing c.4 million in
plan Ukraine
august the Stakhanov movement begins with a drill operator cutting almost 16 times the norm
receiving 200 roubles as supposed to 30 and other commodities
1936 96% peasant households collectivised
managers were facing increasing pressures due to a decline in the number of new workers
by 2/3 and an unplanned increase in spending in the armed forces and its prioritisation for
resources
3rd 5 year 1938 labour books and internal passports issued
plan
1940 absenteeism became a crime
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