Extra detail: economic and social developments Flashcards

1
Q

How much of food in cities came from the black market?

A

Up to 2/3

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2
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Why did authorities fail to stamp out the black market?

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  • There was no other alternative if people were to survive
  • They often used it themselves
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3
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How many people died in the civil war from non military reasons and what were these reasons?

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5 million
- Starvation
- Diseases such as typhus, typhoid, cholera, dysentry

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4
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What was the number of deaths in action?

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350,000

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5
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When was the typhus epidemic and how many people did it kill?

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1920
>3 million

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6
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Dissent in response to war communism

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  • Calls for better rations
  • Calls for a recall of the Constituent Assembly
  • Some ignored the passport system and armed guards to flee to the countryside
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7
Q

How many uprisings were there in Feb 1921?

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155

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8
Q

How many nepmen were there in Moscow in 1925?

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25,000

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9
Q

How much of trade were the nepmen responsible for?

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75%

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10
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When was external trade nationalised?

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June 1918

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11
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What are some examples of why allowing workers to control factories was inefficient?

A
  • Some awarded themselves unsustainable pay rises
  • Some helped themselves to stock and equipment
  • Cases of workers making penknives out of machine parts or shoe soles out of the leather conveyor belts to sell on the black market
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12
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What are ‘sackmen’?

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Peasants with sacks of goods to sell

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13
Q

What percentage of the Petrograd workforce had left the city by April 1918?

A

60%

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14
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Why was disease so prevalent during the war?

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  • Scarcity of soap
  • Shortage of doctors after the assualt on the bourgeoisie
  • Medicine hard to obtain
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15
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How did Jews suffer in the war?

A

White pogroms

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16
Q

How did Kiev suffer in the war?

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Changed hands 16 times, each time bringing further hardship to the citizens

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17
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How did the Ukraine suffer in the war?

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Whole villages wiped out, mainly in Cossack attacks

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18
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Who probably fared the worst in towns and cities?

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Former members of the nobility and bourgeoisie

19
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Why did the former bourgeoisie fare so badly?

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  • They had no ration cards so were reduced to begging or selling their few possessions
  • Some were given manual tasks like clearing snow and ice or sweeping the streets
  • Some sent out to help in the labour battalions
  • Large houses and palaces divided up by Bolshevik building committees so they were reduced to occupying a small area
20
Q

What is the definition of war communism?

A

The political and economic system adopted by the Bolsheviks during the Civil War in order to keep the towns and the Red Army provided with food and weapons

21
Q

What were peasants encouraged to do under war communism?

A

Establish collective or cooperative farms but only a tiny minority complied

22
Q

Define kulaks

A

Russian peasants who were wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour; the Bolsheviks used the description ‘Kulak class’ to refer to the wealthier (capitalist) peasants

23
Q

How were kulaks treated?

A

Labelled ‘enemies of the people’ and their entire stocks were sometimes seized

24
Q

How did peasants resist grain requisitioning?

A
  • By hiding supplies, which were often searched out (any who informed against them were given half of any grain discovered)
  • Growing less
  • Murdering members of the requisition squads
25
Q

Who were slightly better treated than the kulaks?

A

The poor and moderately poor

26
Q

What was the first entire industry to be nationalised?

A

Sugar, May 1918

27
Q

What was the second entire industry to be nationalised?

A

Oil, June 1918

28
Q

Why were professional ‘managers’ employed by the State?

A

To increase output and reimpose discipline

29
Q

How was hard work rewarded (workers)?

A

Bonuses and more rations

30
Q

How were food, clothing and lodging controlled?

A

Through centralised distribution and regulations

31
Q

What was demanded of the non-working class?

A

Obligatory labour duty

32
Q

How did the State try to stop workers moving back to the countryside?

A

By introducing internal passports

33
Q

What did terrible conditions under war communism lead to in some cases?

A

Cannibalism and a trade in dead bodies

34
Q

Who supported the Tambov revolt?

A

Members of the Green forces

35
Q

What was used to deal with revolters in Tambov who hid in the forest?

A

Poison gas

36
Q

What did workers protest in 1921, which sparked the Kronstadt rising?

A

The lack of union representation in factories and expressed their support for other socialist parties

37
Q

What happened when martial law was declared in January 1921?

A

Some regular soldiers refused to take action and the Cheka had to be used to crush the demonstrations

38
Q

When did the ‘scissors crisis’ occur?

A

1923

39
Q

What were the production levels in 1926 like?

A

Same as 1913

40
Q

How many SRs were executed after being given a show trial?

A

11

41
Q

What was GLAVIT?

A

The Main Administration for Affairs of Literature and Publishing Houses

42
Q

How was GLAVIT used for repression?

A

All writings had to be submitted to it for approval before being published

43
Q

When was the Union of Militant Godless set up?

A

1921

44
Q

When were churches attacked and what happened?

A

From 1922, they were stripped of valuable possessions and 100s of priests were imprisoned & some executed