Industry and Workers under Lenin Flashcards
1
Q
Railways
A
Near standstill
2
Q
Policies (3 things)
A
State capitalism introduced. Banks, shipping and factories nationalised. State capitalism later abandoned due to poor situation
3
Q
Workers unhappy in 1918 (2 things)
A
Seized factories, decrees in Jan and April 1918
4
Q
Civil war led too…
A
Starvation
5
Q
War Communism 1918 (two things)
A
Party officials to run factories, not soviets. All businesses nationalised.
6
Q
Inflation led to…
A
NEP
7
Q
Output of Coal
A
Reached 1913 levels, 9 million tonnes of coal by 1926
8
Q
Scissors crisis
A
Gap in prices of industiral and agricultural goods. Agricultural production not great.
9
Q
Working (one thing)
A
Rabkrin (Workers and Peasants inspectorate) set up in 1920 but didn’t do much
10
Q
Housing
A
Improvements due to Decree on Land but slowly decreased
