ECONOMIC DISASTER DUE TO WARC 5

Question 1

peasants

Answer 1

rebellions broke out end 1920 due to priv land can’t sell grow surplus and continued policy of forcible grain requisition >famine th produce was used to feed red army= no longer support bolsheviks

Question 2

peasants Alexander antanov

Answer 2

formed large ‘green army’ agsint bolsheviks ( biggest rebellion in tambour region)

Question 3

splits with communist party: democratic centralists

Answer 3

Communist party facition, concerning the best way to lead wc to rev> critiseded erosion of democracy within communist party and gov system. lenin believed communise party was vanguard party to lead rev. their can be free discussion up to a point

Question 4

splits with communist party: lenin ensure party unity

Answer 4

introduced ‘ban on factions’ march 1921> meant all party members had to accept decision of central committee and anyone who opposesed threaten with exclusion from party = strenghtthended centralisation of Bolshevik party, saw end of factions such as workers opp.

Question 5

Workers opposition:

Answer 5

faction set up 1920, firmly opposed excess of war communism, argued for greater worker control and relaxing factory display. Koliontan accused b leader of lost touch with proletariat

Question 6

wave of workers strikes emergence

Answer 6

protesting agsint low bread rationing, militarised factories, strict displin, bolsehvization of soviets

Question 7

bolsheviks reaction to workers strikes

Answer 7

imposed martial law in Moscow and Petrograd, by feb 1921 workers crossed to naval base at Kronstadt were they joined like minded sailors+dockers

Question 8

opp from sailors: Kronstadt rebellion

Answer 8

30k sailors at naval base wrote to lenin demanding end to 1 party rule, Newley elected soviets, improve civil rights, economic freedom,
hoped to start general revolt agsint b

Question 9

opposition from sailors: crushing Kronstadt reblleion

Answer 9

sailors rejected ultimation from communist party, 60k red army crossed ice to Kronstadt base bombarding it with artillery, leaders shot without trial and thousands put into prison camps

Question 10

severe fammine 1921-22

Answer 10

policies of war communism lead to
hoarding grain, no incentive, slaughtering animals, droughts
THE HARVEST OF 1921 ONLY PRODUCED 50% OF 1913. = famine 5-8m people died

Question 11

lenin forced to change direction fo economic policy march 1921 congress

Answer 11

he introduced new economic policy aim ti provide incentive for peasnts to grow more, trade produce thus inproving food supply