Outcome of war communism

Question 1

Grain requesitions affect on farmers

Answer 1

• recieved no payment
• lower rates of agricultural production - policy gave no insentive to work

Question 2

Decline of industrial work

Answer 2

• few insentives to work hard
• hunger led to workers leaving cities and moving to farms to try and get better fed
• industrial workplace declined from 3 million in 1917 to 1.2 million in 1922

Question 3

Red army

Answer 3

• war communism kept the red army sufficiently supplied
• allowed them to win the civil war

Question 4

Growth of black market

Answer 4

• only 40% of food in cities came from Russia
• workers stole government reasources to sell for food

Question 5

Mass poverty

Answer 5

• by late 1920 major shops shut due to food shortages
• wooding buildings in petrograd dismantled for fuel
• on 43% of the 1917 harvest met in 1921

Question 6

Political crisis

Answer 6

• mass starvation and economic crises led to led to political crisis
• between August 1920 and June 1921 Tambov peasents rebelled against CP
• March 1921 Krondsdat sailors mutinied against the communists with extreme force