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Summary Edexcel A-Level History USSR - Economic Reforms

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9 Sheets on the varying economic reforms an policies of each leader: Lenin to Gorbachev. Includes notes on both agricultural and industrial policies made using multiple textbooks and class notes by a student predicted A/A*.

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‭ECONOMIC REFORMS‬
‭Lenin (1917-1924)‬ ‭Stalin (1928-1953)‬ ‭ hrushchev‬
K ‭ rezhnev‬
B ‭ orbachev‬
G
‭(1953-1964)‬ ‭(1964-1982)‬ ‭(1985-1991)‬

‭Agricultural‬ ‭ Decree on Land‬
→ ‭→Collectivisation‬ ‭ Encourage higher‬
→ ‭ Consumer goods -‬ →
→ ‭ 'Perestroika’ -‬
‭(Oct. 1917)‬ ‭production rates by‬ ‭Ninth Five-Year Plan‬ ‭economic‬
‭→The First Five-Year‬ ‭improving incentives‬ ‭(1971-1975)‬ ‭restructuring‬
‭ State Capitalism‬
→ ‭Plan (1928-1932)‬ ‭for farmers.‬
‭(1918)‬ ‭ Industry (growth of‬
→ ↳
‭ Foreign Firms‬
‭ Invest in farm‬
→ ‭nuclear power and‬ ‭allowed joint ventures‬
‭ War Communism‬
→ ‭equipment and‬ ‭centralized planning)‬ ‭(January 1987)‬
‭(June 1918-1921)‬ ‭resources‬
‭ Agriculture‬
→ ↳
‭ Law on State‬
‭ The NEP (New‬
→ ‭ The Virgin Lands‬
→ ‭(internal passports‬ ‭Enterprises (June‬
‭Economic Policy)‬ ‭Scheme‬ ‭and incentives)‬ ‭1987)‬
‭(March 1921-1924)‬
‭ The Corn‬
→ ‭ Developed‬
→ ↳
‭ ”Co-operatives”‬
‭Campaign‬ ‭Socialism‬ ‭were legalized‬

‭Industrial‬ ‭ Decree on Workers‬ →
→ ‭ The First Five-Year‬ →
‭ Khrushchev’s‬ ‭ Military Investment‬
→ ‭ Twelfth Five-Year‬
→
‭Control (Nov. 1917)‬ ‭Plan (1928-1932)‬ ‭solutions to problems‬ ‭Plan‬
‭with industry‬ ‭→Second Economy‬
‭→State Capitalism‬ ‭→The Second‬ ‭developed by Stalin‬ ‭ ”We can’t build‬
→
‭(1918)‬ ‭Five-Year Plan‬ ‭communism on‬
‭(1933-1937)‬ ‭→ The Liberman‬ ‭vodka” (April 1985)‬
‭→War Communism‬ ‭Plan (1962)‬
‭(June 1918-1921)‬ ‭→The Third‬
‭Five-Year Plan‬ ‭→The Seven-Year‬
‭→The NEP (New‬ ‭(1938-42)‬ ‭Plan (1959-1965)‬
‭Economic Policy)‬
‭(March 1921-1924)‬

, ‭PROBLEMS AND BENEFITS WITH LENIN’S ECONOMIC POLICIES‬

‭Reasons for Lenin’s Economic Policies‬
‭ ‬‭Increase Bolshevik Support (especially among peasants)‬
→
‭→‬‭Spred Socialism and the socialist ideology‬
‭→‬‭Remove Bourgeoisie Oppression & the Capitalist economy‬
‭→ Better poor productivity‬
‭→ Increase state control‬

‭Benefits‬ ‭Problems‬

‭Workers Control (1917)‬ ‭ Ideological (Redistribution of wealth - socialist)‬
→ ‭ Incompatible with industrial efficiency and‬
→
‭ Initial decrees - Decree on Land and Decree‬
→ ‭→ Gained Peasant/Workers Control‬ ‭productivity.‬
‭on Workers Control‬ ‭→ Threat to Bolshevik Control‬
‭→ Ideological, socialist redistribution of wealth‬ ‭→ Lack of expertise and technical skills‬
‭→ Gained peasant/workers support‬ ‭→ Free for all when seizing land and commodities‬
‭(violent process)‬
‭→ Not enough income for the state‬

‭State Capitalism (1918)‬ ‭ Temporary measures to improve stability and‬
→ ‭ Opposed by some in the party‬
→
‭ Abolish the decrees‬
→ ‭production‬ ‭→ Needed control in party hands to ensure‬
‭→ Vesenkha created to supervise the economy‬ ‭→ Used the skills of former owners/managers of‬ ‭supplies went to the Bolshevik war effort.‬
‭→ Larger industries and private. Banks‬ ‭industry‬
‭nationalised‬

‭War Communism (1918-1921)‬ ‭→ Ensured a supply for the Red Army‬ ‭ Very unpopular - requisitioning led to revolts‬
→
‭ Increase state control‬
→ ‭and uprisings in the country‬
‭→ Grain requisitioning‬ ‭→ Not efficient as no incentive for production‬

‭NEP (1921-1924)‬ ‭ Improved Production‬
→ ‭ Initial scissor crisis‬
→
‭ Adress issues of food shortages and famine‬
→ ‭→ Quietened some discontent in the country‬ ‭→ Unpopular with many in the party for its failure‬
‭→ SEE NOTES‬ ‭→ Peasants could sell the surplus for a profit‬ ‭to follow communist ideology‬
‭→ Growth of Nepmen‬

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