Mocks - Social Flashcards
1
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War Communsim dates
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1918 to 1921
2
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War communism and maxist philosophy
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- Contradicted as violent measures used
3
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Min rationing w war communism
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- 50g bread per day
4
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Death toll war communism
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5 million peasants
5
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When was Krondstadt mutiny
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1921
6
Q
When was brest litovsk signed
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March 1918
7
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When was new economic policy implemented
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March 1921
8
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What replaced grain requsioning
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- Food Tax
9
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Impact of NEP: infrastructure
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- Increased goventment investment thanks to tax on legalised activity
10
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Compare grain requositioning to food tax
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- Food tax in 1922 about half of requsioning in 1921
11
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NEP Economic reform, peasantry
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- Could sell grain on open market
12
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Describe NEPmen
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- Entrepreneurs who traded grain and agricultural goods between rural and towns
13
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When was Scissors crisis
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1923
14
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What was Scissors crisis
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- Agricuture rebounded quicker
- Industry slower
- More food, less manuafactured goods
- Food fell, manufactured goods expensive
- Stopped the peasants from mechanising
15
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NEP: Unemployment
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- Incease unemployment as workshops had to make a profit
16
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NEP overall
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- Good
- Only time since WW1 people on the whole prosperous
17
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Tsarist: Steel
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- 9x increase between 1890 and 1900
18
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Tsarist: Cholera
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- 1892
- 300k dead
19
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Tsarist: Starvation
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- Tambov
- 1892
- 2/3 peasants couldnt afford food
20
Q
Vishnagradsky saying
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- We shall not eat we shall export
21
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Tsarism WW1 impact petrograd
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- Population of petrograd
- 2.4mill 1916
- 740k 1920
22
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WW1 imact
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- Workers faced hunger and possibility of conscription
- Peasants faced conscripiona and lack of commodietes e.g Horses and Young men who had been taken for war
23
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Stolypin reforms
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- National insurance
- Early 1900’s
