war communism
•Summer of 1918 War Communism was instituted
-The state introduced military-style control of railroads.
•Industry was nationalized
•Compulsory labour was brought in
•Private trade was suppressed
•Peasants were forced to hand over their entire produce except bare essentials
-was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.
-The state introduced military-style control of railroads.
•Industry was nationalized
•Compulsory labour was brought in
•Private trade was suppressed
•Peasants were forced to hand over their entire produce except bare essentials
-was the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921.
summary
this policy was adopted by the Bolsheviks with the aim of keeping towns and the Red Army supplied with weapons and food, in conditions in which all normal economic mechanisms and relations were being destroyed by the war.
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