Lenin's Policies

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Motivations

  • Ideological - build an egalitarian system

  • Political - economic stability to keep power

  • Modernisation - revolution relied on it

  • Military victory - provide means to win war

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Worker’s Control

  • 1917 - Decree on Land

  • Decree on Workers Control

  • Mass support & ideological

  • Free for all

  • Naive and Idealistic

  • Incompatible with productivity & efficiency

  • Technical experts & managers removed

  • Threated Bolshevik income & control

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State Capitalism

  • Vesenkha -

    • Supreme Council of National Economy to supervise

  • Larger industries nationalised

  • Banks nationalised to form “People’s Bank of Russia Republic”

  • Alienated bourgeoise & land owners

    • Tensions → Civil War

  • Grain production fell

    • Shortages in cities

  • Workers weren’t effective

    • Gave themselves huge pay rises

    • Inflation

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War Communism

  • Forced Grain requisitioning using Cheka

  • Industries nationalised

  • Class based rationing introduced

  • Partial militarisation of labour (peasants forced to become soldiers or labourers)

  • State monopoly on goods and services

  • Return of managers & discipline

    • Fines for absenteeism & lateness

  • Very unpopular with masses

    • Tambov Rising

    • Krondstadt Mutiny 20,000 died “Flash Light that lit up Reality” Lenin

  • Grain production fell

  • Famine 1921 - 5 million died

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NEP

  • Larger industries stayed nationalised

    • Forced to budget properly

  • Smaller industries returned to private ownership

    • Could run for profit

  • Agriculture

    • Allowed to sell for profit after quota

    • Tax in Kind introduced

10th Party Congress 1921 → Ban on Factions to pass the NEP despite Party resistance

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NEP Consequences

Positive

  • Returned grain production to 1913 levels

    • Ended Famine

  • Political stability - no new uprisings

  • Peasantry & Traders were appeased

Negative

  • Not sufficient for an agricultural revolution

  • Divided Party - splits exploited by Stalin

    • Trotsky hated it → Ban on Factions

    • Ideological betrayal

  • Rise of Nepmen (new bourgeoise)

  • Kulaks got richer, harder to remove later

  • Conditions for Proletariat didn’t improve

  • Scissors Crisis

    • Cheap grain + goods shortage

    • Gov introduced price controls