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*.
, 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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